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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. New wave tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have to hire thousands of developers with six-figure salaries to offer products that work well.

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

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. He covered the topic again in June 2009 titled Invent, Invent, Invent. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. couldn’t draw a salary).

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. at 2:47 pm $2500 is enough to live on for most people, but it doesn’t even replace half of a decent software developer’s salary. 16 Rob on 11.19.08

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It was definitely a huge leap to leave the corporate world (and the salary and security that comes with it) and start a company. Poems by Anna was a great little business until I developed breast cancer in 2009. I wrote poems for births, birthdays, weddings and anniversaries, graduations and retirements and so on.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.”

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