If the $11,000 wrapped in bacon at Scopely, or $5,000 for a new hire at BetterWorks isn’t enough to convince you that the tech hiring market is going gangbusters, how about an all expenses, round trip flight to LA, limo and date with an attractive actress or actor to join a startup as an engineer? [...]
In what looks to be an unusually long article for VentureBeat, the online news site posted a lengthly, five-piece article on the Los Angeles tech industry today, entitled Full of hustle, Los Angeles tech takes on Silicon Valley. Although readers of socalTECH will not find any of the information new, it’s good to see another [...]
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Just a quick administrative note, we’ve added Google Plus buttons to all of our stories. What is Google Plus? It’s the new social networking site (think supercharged Facebook) Google just launched. It’s invite-only (email me if you need an invite), and very focused on sharing content with others, in a slightly more filtered way than [...]
(Image courtesy carterse @ flickr) There’s been a lot of navel gazing lately about whether or not we’re in a bubble. Based on valuations and hype, we might be, but there are a few areas where this bubble is seriously lacking. What’s different this time? Well, at least here in SoCal, we’re missing: 1. Free [...]
The folks over at Los Angeles-based Namesake not only know how to turn code, they apparently are the masters of infographics. Their latest is a detailed graphic of Zynga (which filed for an IPO a few hours ago.)
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
