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MakerSquare Wants to Teach You to Become a Developer in Weeks

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With the growing need for Software Engineers at technology, entertainment and media companies in the Los Angeles area, Hack Reactor, which has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates, identified fertile ground for MakerSquare to educate, train and mentor technologists in Southern California.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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Menlo Ventures Karl Mehta Launches CodeForIndia.Org To Empower Citizens In India

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CFI is looking to enlist Indian-origin tech professionals, some who are software engineers from Microsoft, Google, eBay, VISA and Facebook among others to join other volunteers and organizations to give back to their community. Think Local, Hack Global. The teams of volunteer individuals and organizations are not just in for hype.

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

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Working with professional athletes combined with my natural leadership ability and experience in business development makes me uniquely suited to lead a technology company in the health and fitness industry. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. Finding engineering talent is a struggle for everyone right now.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? I believe you will find lots of CTOs quite willing to help you as a mentor.

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