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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. You name it.”

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. What led you to the venture capital world? VatorNews : What do you like to invest in?

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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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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. Such household names as Google, Intel and eBay were started by at least one immigrant founder. It’s new businesses.

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

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It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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