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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

In addition, San Francisco is within striking distance of other major US B2B tech markets, like New York and Chicago. A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., VideoSeed, 5min Media’s proprietary semantic technology, matches the most relevant videos with a partner site’s text content to enhance the consumer experience and increase monetization rates. in August 2010.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Therefore that developer will either learn the semantics of the last or simply institute her own.