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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. ”).

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Startup Act 3.0: A New Hope For Immigrant Entrepreneurs?

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One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. Howard Marks, the co-founder of game giant Activision, and the current co-chair at the Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine , was born in Santa Monica to European parents, grew up in France and came back to the states for college.

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Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia

Cracking the Code

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. But what about Commodity? August 9, 2009 10:02 AM Mike said. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Some questions have a natural escalation path (like working through the standard operations on a linked-list) and others require some more creativity. And some just write the assembly down like its a perfectly normal question.