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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I don’t know any developers. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. How do you know which designer/developer to choose?

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you.