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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I've Googled, gone through my network, posted to Craigslist, and approached universities, and much like your friend I am having a heck of a time finding developers in LA. In Los Angeles Web Developer , I talked about the issues with finding developers in Los Angeles based the experience that one startup founder had.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. Right now, we are running targeted ads using ad networks or whatnot. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team.

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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

socalTECH

I asked him if he wouldn't mind sitting down with me, and he helped me develop the business model, and suggested that I work with some offshore developers on automating the system. We'd like to put money into marketing and web development, so we can create a more robust solution, and get it out in front of people. READ MORE>>.

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Mafia Sourcing – How Insider’s Game User Generated News

Both Sides of the Table

Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. I arrived on this scene wet behind the ears assuming that the web was, as it seemed to me as a user, powered by the masses for the masses. I know the more experienced consumer web people will be laughing about now. The wisdom of the crowds. Or so it seems.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. For me one of the tell tale signs of a real entrepreneur is that they know how to network well enough to find technical talent to join them.