YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

This is usually means heading straight for Silicon Valley and spending thousands on rent and office supplies before validating the business idea. Go the extra mile to find the coder who stays up all night and the graphic designer who spends their free time in museums. Startups seem to be all the rage today.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. First, there’s virtually no seed or angel investment capital, since affluent Colombian investors are highly risk-averse and put their money into real estate and established companies as a rule.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. Hackers’ Guide to Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

Not only did we upgrade the San Francisco “coder” uniform, we accelerated to profitability at warp speed to become what we strive for in all our companies: a “best practices brand.” It started out simply enough: I have a large wardrobe – but like most young creatives and developers here in the Bay Area, it’s all T-shirts and jeans.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

When he wanted to do an internship in Silicon Valley, Abby had to file his work papers for him because he was three days short of 16! Still a teen, this self-taught coder co-founded Mozilla Firefox and sparked a global phenomenon. His psychologist mother Abby remembers: Blake spent hours in his room. ”We

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The Next Web

JANUARY 1, 2014

An employee not locked into the groupthink of the Silicon Valley elite can oftentimes tell you the facts about the real world. For example, the average San Francisco tech-obsessed coder will sometimes overlook things that an average human being – such as a more ‘normal’ in, say, Atlanta.

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Diego Basch

JULY 1, 2014

It was my first encounter with the “creative minds of Silicon Valley” in their natural environment. Nobody seemed excited about open-sourcing the code, the original people were leaving, the coder gurus projected strange attitudes to a lowly candidate. At first glance I was impressed with the place. I didn’t want to work there.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. They work as hard as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Scalable startups are what Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their venture investors aspire to build.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

Rules when followed will give you access to the Silicon Valley world, where you can wear shorts and slippers to work. A coder who says he has a passion for coding but has never built anything with code will be far less convincing than someone has one or two projects that demonstrated his seriousness. d) Related side products.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Devs will get the chance to meet other coders (experienced and aspiring) and work in groups of 1-3 to make some wicked apps. However, I needed to actually build it! Palo Alto, CA.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). How can we attract attention from investors and press in silicon valley without moving there?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2014

Most of the attention given this term is coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech startups mushrooming in that space. Therefore there’s a great deal of emphasis on the need for growth hacking marketers to be tech savvy or even coders.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? If your question is available, choose it from the list.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

But you’d have to be a pretty heads-down coder to not have noticed the past 2+ weeks in the DJIA. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. My prognosis?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 17, 2012

When most people think of outsourcing, they envision coders in Southeast Asia working into the wee hours of (our) night. In places like Georgia, North Carolina and Arkansas, skilled tech workers can be found for a fraction of what you’d pay in Silicon Valley or New York, according to Rural Sourcing Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

A person making a persistent loud complaint isn't a "troll," they're a person making a persistent, loud, complaint.

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