Comments on: Starting a Company in Southern California – Wisdom or Folly? http://mvmpartners.com/blog/2008/03/21/starting-a-company-in-southern-california-%e2%80%93-wisdom-or-folly/ Advice for entrepreneurs on how to build and finance a start-up. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:39:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ray Dollete http://mvmpartners.com/blog/2008/03/21/starting-a-company-in-southern-california-%e2%80%93-wisdom-or-folly/#comment-1774 Ray Dollete Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:27:29 +0000 http://mvmpartners.com/blog/2008/03/21/starting-a-company-in-southern-california-%e2%80%93-wisdom-or-folly/#comment-1774 Great points Stu. To add to your local talent pool comment, there are more fresh software engineering graduates than ever from the myriad of reputable Southern Californian institutes. Due to this labor saturation, most of them will find themselves hard pressed to get picked up fresh out of college (or pre-grad, worse yet) by larger corporations like Yahoo and others you've mentioned. This is prime-picking for the financially starved startup who, with a properly structured hiring process, can find that currently undervalued programmer/analyst or even tech manager who will appreciate the opportunity and later grow with the company into much bigger shoes. Great points Stu. To add to your local talent pool comment, there are more fresh software engineering graduates than ever from the myriad of reputable Southern Californian institutes. Due to this labor saturation, most of them will find themselves hard pressed to get picked up fresh out of college (or pre-grad, worse yet) by larger corporations like Yahoo and others you’ve mentioned.

This is prime-picking for the financially starved startup who, with a properly structured hiring process, can find that currently undervalued programmer/analyst or even tech manager who will appreciate the opportunity and later grow with the company into much bigger shoes.

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