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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Would you mind sharing them?

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. August 8, 2009 6:08 AM Phil Winkler said. August 8, 2009 5:04 PM PetrolHead said.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Past responsibility for operational and capital budgets in excess of $1M, confidence with budgeting and spend planning.