Interesting opinion article in the San Jose Mercury News today, about how Los Angeles is seriously challenging the Bay Area in the clean technology industry: In this month’s election, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs successfully defended our state’s clean economy from Proposition 23, the oil-backed attempt to suspend California’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act. However, this is [...]

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Clean Energy, Jobs, Silicon Valley, Southern California by Benjamin Kuo

Things must be heating up here in the job market, as today (for the first time in a very, very long time) I got two different people (!) asking me about finding a CFO. So, add CFO to the list of folks with increasing demand in the Southern California high tech job market.

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Jobs, Southern California by Benjamin Kuo

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background [...]

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Jobs, Southern California by Benjamin Kuo

Just a quick extra-disclaimer on a story today. Hollywood-based LegalZoom, the online legal documentation website, said this week that it is moving to Glendale, after a fairly high profile fight with Los Angeles over its city tax rates. Although we never cover news due to any advertising or sponsorship relationship, and try to avoid conflict [...]

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