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Yahoo hosted a fun Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

When I first heard about Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner (BAGGD), it was when Google hosted the very first one. Yahoo hosted the 7th(?) There were two of them - Hiliary Schneider, Executive VP of Americas, and Cheryl Ainoa, SVP Global Services Engineering. I unfortunately heard about the event too late to even attend.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) But if I want to hire people that know about byte alignment and cache thrashing I look in the one place where.Net does not feature. Like what?! You use PHP ?

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