Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! When he had finished the program the US wanted more doctors due to the Vietnam War.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

The Boston Startup School , founded at TechStars Boston (see For TechStars Boston, Life Beyond the Pitch ), is creating a program that will give aspiring entrepreneurs and others all the tools they will need to work at a startup. Startups need employees, and the competition for top talent is getting intense. Startups are not easy.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2010

I used to freak prospective employees out by having them write a story for me instead of the “what’s wrong with this code?” He also had an insightful comment about teaching kids to program. “I It should be mandatory to teach kids how to program. Tags: Programming NCWIT.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. ” As companies scale, they can use employee engagement tools to track how people feel about their work environment and their leaders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation. Week 0 - New Feature 1 - Software engineers are busy building brand new features.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. Each of these accelerators is based on the same model that we use to run all of the Techstars accelerator programs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The variable costs – the cost of the physical CD-ROM on which the Windows program is engraved and the cost of the cardboard box in which it is shipped – are trivial. This means it costs Microsoft billions of dollars to make the first copy of its program, but only a few cents to make the second. These costs are largely fixed.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2015

Furthermore, companies have a huge financial incentive to find ways to eliminate human employees and thereby reduce such associated costs as payroll taxes, disability payments, insurance costs, fringe benefits, plant costs, training expenses, and worker safety claims. Mobile App Software Architect. Robotics Software Engineer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

5 Ways To Help Employees You’re About To Lay Off | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/159KAQE. How to Motivate Employees in Less Than 5 Minutes – crowdspring.co/1CzhuZY. Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. How to Show Employees Love (Even if it Makes Them Feel Awkward) – crowdspring.co/1CzgUvd.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Capital Factory at 10:00 am.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. In this role, she is responsible for advancing equitable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. MIT Start Lab.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Startup School – Professional accelerator program for recent graduates. Ruby specialists.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time. The majority of the job posts are in programming, translation, and the arts, but there are also other opportunities from the other industries.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Think of it this way: If all your software engineers are Stanford computer science majors, they’ve all taken classes from the same professors, completed the same problem sets, and been trained to think in much the same ways. After all, we want employees to be productive right out of the gates.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Austin has it’s own draw and it has “emerged as one of the hottest startup hubs in the country” according to Hugh Forrest , Chief Programming Officer for SXSW (and one of the angel investor backing this competition). Apple’s largest headquarters is in Austin (more employees than Cupertino!) for the second year in a row.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. The following are examples of such problems, and only the last requires any programming knowledge. 3) Always ask for an implementation.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. University Resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. Otherwise you run the risk that in the future somebody claims that the programming work that they did for you represents their IP and not yours. You can be talking with potential employees all along the process getting them excited. Assemble a team.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They really care about their employees, and have enough money to buy a fair amount of happiness. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. 4 – Sr. Sales Account Manager.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. If Sae Koo was confident foreign nationals could attain visas with this new program, he says, he’d have more confidence to hire them and expand. ” Sae Koo says his engineer is really excited about the bill.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. Forget about complicated programming and controls. Daily email digest. Featured Jobs.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. As I am going on, I am creating programs and services with various purposes but keeping it under my name at the moment. #2- Just looked at the paper I was reading.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

If you’re thinking about becoming a mentor for startups—either in a formal accelerator program or independently—here are some tips for thinking about how to work with entrepreneurs. 6) Advise as if you were an employee. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself. As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I completed my Bachelors in 3 years (another story for another time) and so was able to go directly into a professional Masters program (also at Carnegie Mellon) and complete a masters degree without having to apply for a new visa. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. If done right, a programming interview serves two purposes simultaneously. On the one hand, it gives you insight into what kind of employee the candidate might be. For the technical part of it, I like doing both whiteboard work and pair programming.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Names can be classified on a continuum based on how they communicate to consumers, says Nina Beckhardt, president of The Naming Group , an agency whose employees have crafted names for Walmart, Target and Puma. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Does It Mean Something? How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP.

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www.fastcompany.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Anytime you have so many layers of software--algorithms, really--nobody knows how one new layer will affect the other layers. It’s incredible; people don’t realize how many software engineers Wall Street takes off the market. But at Knight, they wrote the program and sent it out.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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