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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

The accelerator, which counts Amazon CTO Werner Vogels among its startup mentors , will be showcasing its first batch of startups (see list below) in Silicon Valley on the 20th of September, followed by a panel discussion about “The Future of the European Startup Community” Sounds riveting!

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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. Here are the trends I see in Silicon Valley today: The “Silicon” part of the name no longer applies. Why be in Silicon Valley at all? The number one advantage of Silicon Valley is access to money. Hardware is not made here anymore.

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[Singapore][Event] AppHACK Singapore 2013 by AngelHack

YoungUpstarts

The Singapore chapter of AngelHack – the largest global startup competition and series of hackathons in the world – will be organizing AppHack Singapore 2013 , which looks to gather over 150 Singapore-based software developers and entrepreneurs together where they will create great mobile applications over the span of just 24 hours.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. Developing a popular mobile scheduling app, they raised $1.2

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. Drupal works at all levels of software development. Also lot’s of fake, wanna be CTOs here. (So

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4 steps to starting a Web business without knowing a thing about coding

The Next Web

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. So you have a great idea for a new mobile app or Web service—but you don’t know anything about coding or developing. What drives sales for online services and mobile apps? Developer salaries are high and often out of reach for a startup business.

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Are You A Necessity Entrepreneur? Ask These 7 Questions

YoungUpstarts

Though the trend in the startup world seems to be relocating to Silicon Valley (a choice that some angel investors and ven­ture capitalists now call mandatory) and knocking on the doors of venture capital, this path doesn’t make sense for all businesses, and it’s not acces­sible to many entrepreneurs because of their life circumstances.