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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

275,000 software engineers work together on this platform to deliver results to client companies world-wide. Every project started on the site is assigned a project manager who coordinates teams of engineers to deliver software created to the buyers requirements. Good for them. Photo: Paul Hocksenar.

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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. I’ve also made significant engineering contributions to our two other platforms, Admin (back-end portal for our data team) and Access (LP dashboard). I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved.

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That Time I Passed on Datadog Because I Didn't Understand the Market

This is going to be BIG.

That was the Datadog pitch in late 2010, my first full year of leading deals, that I got from two software engineers. I even punted on the fundraising by adding them to the Open Angel Forum in February, 2011, giving everyone else an opportunity to do the deal, without leading it myself. Makes sense, no?

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Beautiful space in the South Boston Innovation District. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Ruby specialists. FreshTilledSoil - User Interface Design. Places to Hang.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science. Color said that it had six patents pending at the time of its funding, including its ‘elastic’ social.

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The Funding Gap

Gust

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. Copyright BillPayne.com 2011. The figure below shows the number of investors by investment size for startup ventures. million and $4 million.