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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

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Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. Hardware was expensive.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? I’d love to get involved in Founders Institute. Start a blog.

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

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This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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