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More Coders. More Diversity.

Feld Thoughts

But just like in so many other areas, a Boulder entrepreneur has come up a great idea to address the problem that not only adds to the talent pipeline, but also brings in more diversity — a personal passion of mine. The post More Coders. Reach out to Heather if you’d like more information. More Diversity.

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Come Check Out a Very Important LA Tech Event on June 1st

Both Sides of the Table

A special thanks to Jason Lehmbeck , founder & ceo of DataPop , a great LA startup of which I have been a long-standing fan, for championing this event and bringing it to my attention. Not a coder? Tomorrow LA is hosting an important tech event - please consider registering and coming by. Register at [link] eventbrite.com/#.

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The Code is your Enemy

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But this also produces a natural weakness , and when I look at what made me a successful entrepreneur — not just a great coder — it’s that I acknowledged and overcame that weakness. The weakness is your love of creation. You love to write clean, tested, scalable, extensible, beautiful code.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. Tell me a bit about your background. It sounds interesting.

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How to hack the recruitment process to find the best developers for your startup or agency

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jason Cartwright , the founder of Potato , a 65-person Web development agency headquartered in London. The right developer on the other hand can start you off on the correct footing, pivot any incorrect tech choices, network to pull in more skilled coders and motivate them to do their best work.

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. But if tools are plentiful and costs resemble rounding errors, what stands in the way of the would-be entrepreneur of 2012? I’ve been sent a random email from someone who is “founding” a business, who needs a technical co-founder.”. Yiannopoulos.

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‘I don’t know’: Why admitting you don’t have all the answers is perfectly okay

The Next Web

Jason Freedman is the co-founder of 42Floors , making it easy for everyone to rent office space. A couple of times a founder was in such a salesy mode that we both knew he was b *g his answers, but he refused to show anything other than total confidence. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' I just saw it as foolishly naïve.