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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Fast-forward to today and the landscape is different.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. These costs are largely fixed. Today, Oracle has 40,000 workers in the United States and 66,000 abroad.

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Introducing Codespace – shared (free!) office space in Boulder for geeking out

VC Adventure

Today there’s another new initiative launching to help young tech companies in our community – Trada is opening CodeSpace , a free co-working space dedicated to startup developers and software engineers.

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Introducing Codespace – shared (free!) office space in Boulder for geeking out

VC Adventure

Today there’s another new initiative launching to help young tech companies in our community – Trada is opening CodeSpace , a free co-working space dedicated to startup developers and software engineers.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. They are cost effective and really powerful when combined together but sometimes completely disconnected and hard to integrated without extra work done by engineering teams.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. VatorNews : What do you like to invest in?