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

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Huston-Tillotson (@HustonTillotson) | Twitter Eugene Sepulveda CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation Director, Capital Factory Sr. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

What this means is that any economic development effort must be framed in the context of the following central question: how can the government help more young companies be formed, grow faster and achieve long-term success? Such household names as Google, Intel and eBay were started by at least one immigrant founder.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. To put everything I’d learned through my SocialNet experience into another shot on goal as a founder. One guy named Jeff had even launched what he then called “Earth’s biggest bookstore.” You just started building.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures. Venture News.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. These people abound in New York.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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