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Jason Returns to the 313 for Startup Grind Detroit on April 5th

Feld Thoughts

As many of you know, my partner Jason is from Detroit. Early in his career, Jason was a software engineer at Accenture. Recent speakers include Dug Song of Duo Security, David Tarver of Wayne State University, Stacy Brown-Philpot of TaskRabbit and more! The Motor City. Prior to this, Jason was an attorney with Cooley.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Crunchboard. The New York Times Releases Its Headline-Reading Google Glass App.

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“Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech

Hunter Walker

We launched the CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places top black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships, with five students in summer 2012. We partnered with Google for Entrepreneurs in 2015 to begin to bring our work national, with a focus on entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

The next step would be to secure funding. 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. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund.

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

www.reincubate.com

Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Where appropriate, patent or secure intellectual property by other means. Understanding of relevant laws, regulations and information security best practices.

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Not All Hot Startups Live Up To Their “Change The World” Billing—And We Have Data

ReadWriteStart

According to its blog, LinkedIn “compiled the list by analyzing millions of interactions between Bay Area startups with less than 500 employees and the more than 337,000 Bay Area software engineers and IT professionals on LinkedIn.” Minted (“The world’s premier marketplace for independent design”).