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SXSW Startups: Horizon

Austin Startup

He also built a number of key open source libraries used by many large Internet companies around the world (see ). Our CTO, Ian Ha, has worked as a senior software engineer at various startups in the gaming, interactive media, financial services and gig-economy spaces. What trend is your team most excited about?

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

.” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. You name it.” ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper. ” And as impact goes, so does cost.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm. The next step would be to secure funding.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Software Engineering. source code version control Folder backups by date VSS and beginning CVS/SVN user Proficient in using CVS and SVN features. Also should be able to design operations support systems like monitoring, reporting, fail overs etc. Knows keyboard shortcuts for most used operations. Programming.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world.