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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3 ”). .”).

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

Apparently, the technique worked as the deal is said to net everyone at Color, including investors, a return on the initial funding. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Those apps were then abandoned after he showed them off. Yes, we know, it seems crazy.

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More Tech Startups are LLCs

Austin Startup

Also, most VCs are only looking for companies in a high-growth track where any net revenue will be reinvested for growth (no corporate profits, no corporate tax), so they are selecting for companies for whom an LLC structure isn’t really that appealing. But not all VCs think that way. It requires real financial, tax, legal, etc.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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Why Do Alumni Donate to Their Alma Mater?

Diego Basch

However, I did feel that creating local jobs and spreading some lessons learned in Silicon Valley provided a sort of return on the taxpayer money spent on me. Going to CMU for my Masters in Software Engineering was one of the single best decisions I’ve ever made. Mind you, I’m not a bleeding-heart altruist.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? What is customer development?