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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts. With the SBA’s help, however, Columbus was able to diversify its business.

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#askadeveloper Your Web and Programming Questions

Up and Running

Are you wondering which web hosting service to use, or which programming language you need to learn, or what’s important to look for when hiring a software or web developer? She has been working in software development since 2000, with extensive experience in website design and functionality.

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Via Codigo lays down it’s growth plan: Key Alliance with Transformify to Empower the Social and Labour Reintegration of Vulnerable Youth

Transformify

“It’s like hiring an agency at a freelancers rate. Since December, Via Codigo's clients can query for Via Codigo as a special skill using Transformify's search engine, and easily hire Via Codigo developers. It has developed a network of over 70 Peruvian businesses that hire from their ranks.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

All the way from 1993 to 2000. There were engineers of all types—mechanical, civil, electrical etc., and the non-engineering kinds. As India’s IT sector boomed and so did its companies, these new hires grew too, making IT the hottest career choice at the turn of the century.

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Millennials got Mail: 6 ways to successfully target the ‘always connected’ generation through email

The Next Web

Toss around the term “Millennial” in your favorite search engine and it brings up perceived characteristics attributed to the generation. There’s the how-to on working with them, why not to hire them, how they are narcissistic and selfish (yet still love/rely on their families), and most of all, their “always connected” obsession.

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Serial CEO Judy Estrin On Startups and Innovation

ReadWriteStart

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. It is a lot easier to have someone else recruit and hire a CEO.". Engineers are often thought of being fields where people interact with machines and not people.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device.

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