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[Infographic] 2012 Q3: Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley

YoungUpstarts

Software engineers are extremely high in demand, and over the past few years the growth in their salaries has shown exactly how much in demand they are. Salaries, representative of software engineers and developers at emerging growth companies within the Bay Area – have grown by 5.3-percent

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent

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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

Building a software product, the massive part of your budget is the developers’ salary. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product. Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

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. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. It’s not just software engineers who are lacking in this department.

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Find out how startups and corporations can partner to achieve results that truly benefit both sides. This panel will help you get a better understanding of how Talent-Leadership-Culture drives ROI and how it can be achieved, with Wade Allen, CEO of Cendea, Jim Bledsoe, Senior Partner of Cendea, and KimGorsuch, CEO of Weeva. Diversity.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

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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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.