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Silicon Beach's Hidden Advantage: More Talent?

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There''s been a perpetual complaint and worry in Southern California for years: how difficult it is to find good talent, particularly in engineering and software, for early stage startups. Those non-engineering skills appear to be far easier to find down here than in Silicon Valley. READ MORE>>.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive. So it doesn’t have to be a small firm. But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 12, 2010 This is part 1 of the series: 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches. and tips for buyers looking for logo design. Make it unique. was completely wrong. The Positivity Delusion.

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