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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

Tech.Co

If you hired an outstanding front-end software engineer, chances are they are friends with other outstanding software developers. Keith, best-selling author of “Never Eat Alone” and “Who’s Got Your Back,” offered this advice: “Conferences are always a great place to start, if you do your research.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. What's your background, and how did you get into this?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

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

Both Sides of the Table

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. Running on a Dell pizza box, we can run 20 times as many calls as other software, giving us the lowest cost basis in the industry. Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities? Jonathan Lehmann: The reception of the idea has been tremendous. It has been really amazing.

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