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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

Tech.Co

So with no real barometer for reliable talent and a fast-evaporating social network, where should early founders snag that elusive star talent. Together, these methods can be an incredibly effective hiring practice – a comprehensive employee-referral-engine as good as any high-level recruiter. Tap Into Your Network.

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

Tech Zulu Event

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Finding engineering talent is a struggle for everyone right now. opportunities for every software engineer in the field.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

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MakerSquare Wants to Teach You to Become a Developer in Weeks

Tech Zulu Event

With the growing need for Software Engineers at technology, entertainment and media companies in the Los Angeles area, Hack Reactor, which has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates, identified fertile ground for MakerSquare to educate, train and mentor technologists in Southern California. “Los

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Silicon Beach Expands with Santa Clarita’s Startup Weekend Nov. 13 -15

Tech Zulu Event

This is a unique opportunity for software engineers, designers, and business-minded entrepreneurs to team up and build several startups in just 54 hours! One weekend, teams of newly formed entrepreneurs and who knows what products or big ideas can happen?

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network,” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

I know it happened in the late 90’s and there are some very wealthy minority shareholders from Google’s early days. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. If you can’t find somebody any technical resources at all through networking please consider keeping your day job.

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