The Mercury News posted an article this morning on how companies in Silicon Valley are dumping cubicles for “open” offices. Having worked closely with many software, hardware, marketing, and sales teams–and having endured “open office” layouts a few times myself–I just shake my head this. Having been both in the trenches and managing teams, I [...]
I was talking to Duke Bristow, who teaches entrepreneurship and engineering courses at both USC and UCLA (yes, apparently you can work for both schools at the same time), about companies who had told me they are having difficulty finding developers. He tells me he has lots of graduating engineerings students–both undergrad and graduate–who are [...]
I ran across a blog posting recently from Jason Caplain, a VC in North Carolina, talking about an entrepeneur’s complaint of developers leaving the region for Silicon Valley. Jason, while talking about NC, had a few good points which he uses to rebut the entrepreneur–a few of which could equally apply to Southern California. The [...]
Om Malik is reporting today that Helio is on the brink of some job cuts, after Earthlink said it would cut 900 people (and much more) earlier this week. So far, the track record of MVNOs here in Los Angeles isn’t looking so good.
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
