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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable. The “Internet of Things”.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. office, right in the heart of MIT.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company).

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Crowdsourcing: a 7+7 Primer (Pt. 1)

crowdSPRING Blog

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet.

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Is #NewYork the Next Startup Land of Oz?

Scalable Startup

A few things have happened recently to cause me to look a little closer at NY for the next amazing companies in Internet technology. Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. First, a friend announced that they were moving their startup geo-lo based company from L.A.

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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. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet.