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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states. Social networking. Social games.

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Silicon Beach's Hidden Advantage: More Talent?

socalTECH

There''s been a perpetual complaint and worry in Southern California for years: how difficult it is to find good talent, particularly in engineering and software, for early stage startups. Those non-engineering skills appear to be far easier to find down here than in Silicon Valley.

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Los Angeles Web Developer

SoCal CTO

Here were some of his particular issues: Most of the firms that come up are actually website design firms not website development firms. Web design typically refers to the process of interface design and graphic design. The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene. TMZ reports: “The Winklevii have their eye on SoCal as the new Silicon Valley (which is home to Facebook and Apple) thanks to L.A.’s Balderdash Developers Log(n) Consultants RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

This is stuff I tell people verbally at least twice / month so I’m glad to finally get it into written format. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. We're also updating the format.

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