rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. In a startup cash is king.

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United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Hire anyone who fits the culture and mission of your company wherever they live.

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Distribution San Francisco Silicon Valley El Salvador 117