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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

And it made me come to a new realization: Every early-stage web/mobile/online startup should have at least one technical advisor, probably two. As I mention in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , the number one reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time.

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Sponsor Post: Southern California technology firms are hiring!

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Web Application Developer , Irvine, GrowMetrix. Web Developer , Calabasas, lynda.com, Inc. Web UX Designer , Carpinteria, lynda.com, inc. Senior Web Developer Software Engineer , Santa Monica, Cars.com. Director of Research & Analytics , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group.

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Ben McCann

Tech.Co

I created and launched Realtime Google Analytics together with three other software engineers. In high school, I created a guitar tablature site, which received over 1 million page views per month, and I’ve been addicted to the web ever since.

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SPONSOR POST: Find jobs at socalTECH.com

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Senior Web Developer , Malibu Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Software Engineer , West LA, Shopzilla. Platform Senior Software Engineer , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. IT Infrastructure/Technical Services Manager , Malibu, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

socalTECH

However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done.

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SiliconBeach's 1st LEGO Challenge

SoCal Tech Calendar

This is a special event for software engineers and web developers who havent stopped being a kid (because we havent!) Labeled as one of the fastest growing tech hotspots, Silicon Beach has definitely not slowed down and we need your help building the future, one LEGO at a time in a race that youll never forget.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.