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Tech Interview: CouponBird’s Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. Nowadays most coupons are digital distributing online and many are delivered to highly targeted audiences.

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These engineers quit their jobs to start LeChat

Hunter Walker

For years we’ve worked in small, distributed engineering teams and we’ve always struggled to find the right tool for communication. We primarily use chat because software engineering is very text-oriented. What led you guys to start LeChat and how did you decide to make it a company vs a side project?

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Turk was among the first platforms to truly leverage the power of a distributed workforce and to demonstrate that providers around the world would happily participate in such a model. is the first company to devise s system to effectively crowdsource SEO (search engine optimization) services. JJ’s List.

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More Tech Startups are LLCs

Austin Startup

So starting as an LLC allows you to build your company, and even raise some early capital, while letting things develop to see if you’re really building a business that needs conventional venture capital (and then convert to a C-Corp), or if you’re building one that may instead become profitable and distribute profits to investors (stay an LLC).

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

As you can see, the distributions look quite different between the group of people who got offers and those that didn’t. Take a look at the GPA distribution for candidates who got offers versus candidates that didn’t (click to get a bigger, more interactive version). Undergraduate GPA. Conclusion.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

When we talk about what happens next, we often frame the conversation in reactive terms. I wasn’t exactly sure what this software would do yet. And in this particular instance, by all means, hunkering down and maintaining social distance is saving lives. Keep doing that. But keep looking forward too.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. She hosts technical and networking events for developers and designers in Austin and also facilitate partnerships with local tech companies.