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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

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. What other policy initiatives should the venture community be working on? Image by Getty Images via @daylife).

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) 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. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Embedded software engineer.

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