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MakerSquare Opens Coding School In LA

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MakerSquare , which operates coding camps and classes to help students get software jobs, is setting up a new location in Los Angeles, according to the Hack Reactor collective. angeles camp code software education school hackreactor reactor hack makersquare' READ MORE>>.

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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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Los Angeles-based business transactions and dealroom service CapLinked has rounded up some new investors today, saying that it has added additional investors in its Series A funding. FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), and others. The firm earlier had announced investments from.

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

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. 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.

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MakerSquare Wants to Teach You to Become a Developer in Weeks

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Straight outta Austin, MakerSquare has teamed up with coding school collective, Hack Reactor , to open a new campus in LA to help fill the tech talent gap and to provide the area with the necessary talent pool to continue the Los Angeles tech expansion (as a call to action for President Obama’s TechHire initiative).

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LA-Based Coding Bootcamp Codesmith Boasts 96% Hiring Rate

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The key to creating software engineers that are capable and effective in their roles is to teach more than coding. However, we’re not interested in what your GPA was, only that you bring total dedication to developing as a software engineer now.”. Is coding education not the foolproof model we once thought?

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Bridging The Gap Between Students And Startups, With TechLA

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There''s a gap between the robust, growing technology startups in Los Angeles and the many students graduating from local universities, according to Steven Dietz , who is a venture capitalist at LA''s Upfront Ventures. Steven Dietz: There is very little connection between the schools here and the technology community in the LA area.

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

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For starters, as Josh Kopelman outlined in this excellent post on their Dorm Room Fund , many great innovations including Microsoft, Google & Facebook started in a dorm room. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. I thought it was an amazing idea. Maker Studios.

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