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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. Global interest in Canadian tech jobs has increased by 58%.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Techstars Mobility (Detroit).

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Some of the readings for this class session included What The Machine Learning Value Chain Means For Geopolitics , How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape The Global Order, An Understanding Of Ai’s Limitations Is Starting To Sink In , and The Panopticon Is Already Here. Why Should Silicon Valley Engineers and Our Students Get Involved?

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.