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Insights and Opinions: Developers Are Tough To Find Again

socalTECH

Our Insights and Opinions article today is from Tony Karrer , CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, who gives some hints, tips, and observations about the increasing difficulty of finding technical talent in Los Angeles.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

In between, I got an email from CJ Cenizal asking about this exact issue: I'm growing a social gaming startup, Elevated Games ( elevatedgames.com ) as Founder and CEO. I'm currently looking for developers to join the founding team and when I read your post, I felt like I have been going through the exact same thing as your friend.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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Congrats To The Presenting StartupDemo Companies!

Tech Zulu Event

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. You can use it to quickly turn your location data into a complete mapping website and companion iPhone app.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

Headed by famed Google AdSense creator Gil Elbaz, Factual has created a massive, cloud-based repository for data on geolocated. SendGrid has seen massive growth and adoption, as thousands of web developers have discovered that the company--which has major. Retention Science is figuring. customers based on that data.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. By Frank Addante Since Googles announcement of their decision to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion on Friday, I have received a flood of emails asking for my thoughts on the topic. Startup 3.0:

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