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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 year-on-year to US$118,900, according to an infographic from Silicon Valley technical recruiting firm, Riviera Partners. But how much has it grown?

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. — As a transplanted Silicon Valley VC and now a regional investor, I often get asked, “How do we go about building up our local tech ecosystem?”.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? He lost a bet to me and owed me some money and I told him, 'hey, go teach yourself Ruby On Rails. That led to a post on Hacker News offering to teach people how to develop in Ruby.

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Twitter Link Roundup #227 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

How Airbnb Manages Not To Manage Engineers | ReadWrite – crowdspring.co/1kDg8nG. This map reveals exactly where Silicon Valley gets its talent | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/1kLpblq. PHP vs Ruby vs Python: Three Programming Languages in a Nutshell | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1nJ16yT. 1l8D3pz.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The So Cal engineering gap? from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town.

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

Rob Go

Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred). Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. FreshTilledSoil - User Interface Design. Filament Group – User Interface and Design.

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Rise and fall: Three Lessons for Entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

My father was a good High School student and was accepted for admission at the Brooklyn Polytechnic University , where he studied electrical engineering and paid his way by going ROTC (i.e., He even went back to school at night for four years and obtained an MBA-equivalent in electrical engineering. by joining the army).