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Galvanize Plans Expansion To Los Angeles

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Galvanize , a company which operates a network of locations teaching software engineering skills--and which often serve as hubs of startup activity nationwide, offering up coworking for technology startups, events, and more--is planning to expand its efforts in Los Angeles, after raising $32M and buying another "coding bootcamp" operator, Hack Reactor. (..)

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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

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However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. We've built an artficial intelligence platform, which tells you who is more active than others, based on their behavior. That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in.

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Bridging The Gap Between Students And Startups, With TechLA

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Particularly when you consider the activity around Silicon Valley, you see the activity in Silicon Valley revolves around Stanford and Sand Hill Road, which is just geographically very close. Students are looking actively for internships now, and to get the best students, you want to post internships now. Thanks, and good luck!

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Indeed Prime On Why Los Angeles Is A Hot Technology Jobs Market

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Terence Chiu: Indeed Prime is a new product Indeed is building, to attract top software engineers, and connect them with the best, attractive companies hiring software engineers. Definitely, basic software engineering is the most popular role. because it's been such a hot job market.

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Southern California Technology Jobs Surge

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It's been tough to shake people loose from companies," Stuart Macfarlane , CEO of El Segundo-based iChange , explains, saying that the firm is actively looking to hire two to three web developers. Mangers said Webvisible today has slightly under 300 employees, and hopes to have slightly under 500 employees by the end of the year.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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In Seattle people like Dave Schappell actively recruit people like me to visit the city and when we do he becomes a “brand ambassador” for the city organizing great meetings, events & dinners. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. And ensuring we leave with a positive impression. Local press matters.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom. One of the other things we do very well, and where we have engineering expertise, is we provide one-off, interactive IVR solutions for media companies in the Los Angeles Area.

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