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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. Recruiting engineers is hard enough, but having to deal with fake/scam candidates makes it that much harder. So names like David Smith are not unlikely.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

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Apple Platform Layer Bugs

Feld Thoughts

I went into Photos to add a name to a Person that I noticed in my Person view and the pretty Apple rainbow spun for about 30 seconds after I hit the first name of the person’s name. Software engineering at scale is really difficult and it’s getting even more, rather than less, challenging.

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Skyrocket Productivity with Xebec

Austin Startup

People within any industry enjoy the additional screen space and portability of Xebec without taking up additional desk space: Software Engineers, Graphic Designers, Financial Planners, Bankers, Traders, PR Professionals, Photographers, Salespeople, and Advertising / Marketing Professionals, just to name a few.

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Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts

Duct Tape Marketing

I do know in looking at a little bit of your background, you're not software engineers, you didn't grow up in, in that necessarily. Todd Fisher (01:49): I was gonna say, I have a technical software engineering background. You know, they had like their email service, they had their, you know, text message platform.

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What I’ve learned from seeing 20k company pitches

Hippoland

To be fair, this number includes pitch emails like this (incl a response from my former colleague Sean Percival). (In fact, the vast majority of pitches I’ve seen probably fall under this category and these only take a few seconds to read and archive, so this is how you get to see 20k pitches!) Meandering email copy is not a good sign.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

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