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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

Once the employee is plugged into emails, for instance, they’ll be part of the conversation. Studies show that among software engineers in India, new employees sought out more information when they were socialized within the organization. Note that new hires need passwords and access to all systems, pronto.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, a complete transcript of our conversation follows the show resources below. His main message throughout all of this, Let's not waste the opportunity this time.Here's my conversation with Alpha Lee.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

The policy conversation regarding jobs and economic development is starting to show some promising signs, particularly in helping young companies flourish. In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine.

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

blog.expensify.com

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. In it theres meeting with a guru in India who defines what a guru really does. Thanks for all your efforts.