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Who Should you Hire at a Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

Shouldn’t you just hire the most senior guy you can out of Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, EA or whatever your relevant industry is? One such meeting that he set up was with the CIO of the largest consumer products company in Europe. Life’s too short – find somebody geographically desirable or totally mobile.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

Los Angeles has a strategic asset : content creation skills – In order for the Internet to go mainstream you first needed the infrastructure to support it from networking equipment (Cisco, Juniper) to databases (Oracle) to search (Google) and more recently mobile devices (Apple). Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

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