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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

percent year-on-year to US$118,900, according to an infographic from Silicon Valley technical recruiting firm, Riviera Partners. Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent Check out the infographic for more:

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood. You can’t replace this stuff with Java. Ironically in Silicon Valley consumer Internet business have become hits driven businesses. And what Hollywood does’t get about Silicon Valley? As humans we like story telling.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Sun Microsystems is no more but in the ’90s and early ’00s the Java platform was the gold standard for server-side & workstation applications. Apple’s iOS App platform is most similar to Sun with Java, i.e. using a low/zero margin software business to propel a high-margin hardware business. Author howerl.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town. This imbalance keeps L.A.

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Investor and Entrepreneur Michael Girdley Featured on Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

Girdley, who earned a computer science degree with honors from Lafayette College, worked as a programmer in Silicon Valley. He is also the author of several books on Java programming with a focus on […] The post Investor and Entrepreneur Michael Girdley Featured on Ideas to Invoices Podcast appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Find someone who is “certified&# in it.