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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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Replay launches out of beta – record and replay web applications to fix bugs faster!

Version One Ventures

Jason Laster (CEO, co-founder) is an experienced software engineer and champion of developer tools who, alongside Brian, has inspired world class talent to come together to bring time travel debugging to life / at scale. So far, early users LOVE Replay.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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Why Startups Must Liberate From Hiring Platforms

YoungUpstarts

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? Because startups are fragile and fledgling. Too big to fail.

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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. I also teach Front-End Web Development at General Assembly. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! I’ve just launched a new Meetup and online community I’m heading up with David.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Web Research. Software Testing. Some work requires a time tracker while others rely on an output-based model.

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How to launch a startup without knowing a line of code

The Next Web

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. Use copy-paste widgets from around the web like contact forms, Skype buttons, live chat, etc. Can a real person perform these tasks manually?