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

We’ve been covering the last couple of weeks the interesting gap between the overall employment picture in Southern California, and that of early stage startups and high tech companies — where demand seems to be outstripping supply of talent. Frank Peters, of the Frank Peters Show, has a great segment on his podcast talking with [...]

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Jobs, Startups by Benjamin Kuo

A quick Friday bit: we’ve been talking with a lot (and I mean a LOT) of people who are looking for developers in Southern California (Los Angeles and beyond). One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999″ in terms of the activity, with not only jobs aplenty, but offers and counter-offers hitting good talent. Interestingly enough, [...]

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Economy, Jobs by Benjamin Kuo

The random-mentioned-in-conversation theme of this week, after talking to a (large) number of CEOs of startups (and not-so-startups) across Southern California, is if you’re a good web developer around here, you can write your own ticket. It seems that — despite the unemployment rate and recession — there are a large number of companies seeking [...]

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Jobs by Benjamin Kuo

We’re looking for a few MBA or business students, who wouldn’t mind interning with us for some experience and exposure to the world of high tech startups and venture capital. As an intern, you would research and verify information in our venture capital database, do competitive research, analyze companies, and other tasks which are highly [...]

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Announcements, Jobs by Benjamin Kuo

Seems like a week for “hey look SoCal has a tech industry” articles. Today, in eWeek: San Diego Is A Rising Star For Clean Energy, Technology Jobs.

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Economy, Jobs by Benjamin Kuo

If you’re like me, you’re tired of hearing about layoffs, the huge number of job losses due to the economy, etc. So, it’s nice to hear that there seem to be a number of local companies squarely in hiring mode. One of those companies is Aerovironment, which has locations in Monrovia and Simi Valley–the firm [...]

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Jobs by Benjamin Kuo

With all the worries about jobs and employment out there, I’ve been surprised to hear from many recruiters who have lots of positions open and have been having a difficult time finding people. Among the latest posted to our jobs board: Rock-Star Lead Front-End Software Engineer/Web Developer, Move, Inc. Mid-Level Software Engineer 2, Move, Inc. [...]

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Jobs by Benjamin Kuo