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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

Software Engineer Steven VanRoekel CIO Dan Greenberg Co-Founder & CEO CHECK OUT THE AGENDA. > Nicole Lazzaro President Udi Nir CTO NEW! Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW! Juan Diego Calle CEO Dharmesh Shah Co-founder & CTO Ross Snyder Sr.

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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. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. The relationship ended when Google employees forced the company’s withdraw­­­ from the project. Project Maven became the basis for what we did in the JAIC. We started with a cross-functional team.

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is how much money you can spend to get someone to become a customer. LTV ­ CAC = ROI.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. As the third U.S.

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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. Surprises from Being Outside the Government Selling In.