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Southern California Sees $1.9 Billion In Q1 Deals, Biggest Since Dot Com Boom

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MoneyTree report, which was released this evening, The quarter was the biggest, investment quarter for Southern California since the dot com era. More than half of this quarter''s investment due to a single, nearly $1 billion investment in Hawthorne-based SpaceX. Southern California saw a staggering $1.9

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? So if Bird isn’t in your area yet I’ll point out that you download an app, open the app to find the nearest Bird (as you would an Uber) and when you find one you scan the QR code to rent it.

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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

Tech.Co

It may be the case that the engineer friend of yours at SpaceX won’t be able to join simply because she’s supporting her parents back home. If you hired an outstanding front-end software engineer, chances are they are friends with other outstanding software developers. Too much pressure may put pressure on your friendship.