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One Reason Why Your Technical Recruiting Isn't Working

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I was in a board meeting and we were talking about the need for a software engineer. We'll get multiple companies together in the same room sharing brief overviews of their stack--be it the code they use to run their applications or even the marketing processes in place for their "acquisition stack".

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. in Computer Science with a Distinction in Teaching from Stanford University.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product? Both internal and external.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Software Testing. Behance is Adobe’s portfolio website so it’s easy to miss this opportunity.

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

Steve Blank

We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year. I want you to leave your job, where you’re getting free meals, where you’re living and working around a bunch of other software engineers. Why Should Silicon Valley Engineers and Our Students Get Involved?