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SiliconBeach's 1st LEGO Challenge

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, April 26, 2012 -- SiliconBeach's 1st LEGO Challenge (powered by BetterWorks). This is a special event for software engineers and web developers who havent stopped being a kid (because we havent!) This will be a very simple, yet creative and totally fun experience, spaces are filling up fast!

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Benchling Scores $14.5M to Grow Online Lab Notebook for Bio-Researchers

Xconomy

That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JS Saturday | Javascript Beginner to Advanced in One Day!

Tech Zulu Event

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Hattan Shobokshi , a Microsoft Community Contributor, Speaker and Senior Software Engineer. Register here.

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

SoCal Delicious

Monday, August 27th, 2012. Software Engineer, Back End – Games.com Games.com Sr. Software Engineer, Front End Games.com Mid-Senior Full Stack / Front-End Engineer (HTML5, CSS3, JS, Ruby) John McNeil Studio Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer Universum USA Product Manager - Local Business Products Yelp.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

. “While our competitors have been chasing telecom rates to zero, we have kept our focus on delivering value in both our software and our services, which supports superior margins while providing customizable solutions via our software and API suite,” he said.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.