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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. “It’s not been a difficult sell.&# All Rights Reserved.

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Robert has been working in software since 2005. Search Engine Marketing and online ads on the other hand can be set up in minutes. I even worked on the AdWords API team as an intern at Google. I am sure this hurt me, but I think I managed the campaign as well as most engineers in my position would. He is a Ph.D.

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Google Summer of Code: 55 million lines of code released since 2005

The Next Web

Chris DiBona, the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google, was recently interviewed by Slashdot. ” We had a couple of APIs at the time. DiBona was apparently asked to create the program by individuals very high up at Google. They’re said, “Okay. Sounds good. Oh, we need you to do us a favor.”

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Education is a strong indicator of your likelihood to start a company.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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What really sets PhoneGap apart is that it lets developers create a full-functioning mobile web app but place that app in a native wrapper, so that it can use native device APIs and get submitted to the App Store or Android Market. Sourcebits has engineered over 200 apps to date, with plenty more to come.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them.

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