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

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In Los Angeles the wins of Overture, Applied Semantics, MySpace, LowerMyBills, PriceGrabber, LegalZoom and the like have produced a large number of angels who are helping the next generation of LA entrepreneurs get started and succeed. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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

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This fertile crescent of B2B technology is an unbeatable homebase for a growing technology product’s sales, marketing, and success teams. A San Francisco office empowers “boots on the ground” B2B sales, marketing, and success teams. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

3M acquired Attenti, which is expected to have about $100 million in sales in 2010, to get into electronic monitoring devices, which leads to large savings for correctional authorities. Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. in August 2010. GOOGLE INSTANT BASED ON ISRAELI DEVELOPMENT.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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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.