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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Amazon EC2. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Seed Startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Check them out.