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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Since 2015, the rising interest abroad continues to contribute to steady growth. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. Humberto Farias is a seasoned technology professional with over 18 years of experience guiding companies around the world through the custom software development process. In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8

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Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia

Cracking the Code

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

This is an especially personal issue for Finney, whose father was able to transition his career from blue-collar mover to software engineer thanks to a data-entry class that IBM brought to inner-city Milwaukee. “It Focus100 gets its name from Finney’s goal to propel 100 new female founders in the tech industry by 2015.

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“Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech

Hunter Walker

We launched the CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places top black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships, with five students in summer 2012. We partnered with Google for Entrepreneurs in 2015 to begin to bring our work national, with a focus on entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

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. On the 4th of July, 2015, I shared my vision with Erin. I even have 100,000 FB followers and over 200,000 active traders and subscribers. Thanks to Jason Bond, Jason Bond Picks ! #6