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Why good people leave large tech companies

Steve Blank

They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services. The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town. I wish I hadn’t.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive.

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How to Develop an App for Your Business Without Coding Knowledge

Up and Running

The good news for startups and other businesses with limited funds (or, who have financially savvy owners) is that you don’t (necessarily) need to hire an expensive team of software developers to create an app. These are all questions that you can answer without a degree in software engineering. . Hire a team or do it yourself.

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Verified Data Will Prevent “Fake It Til You Make It”

Hunter Walker

A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score. Or a hiring manager may run a stack of resumes through some candidate eval software which pulls all sorts of data from github, stack overlflow, etc in order to try and verify that an individual has at least been publicly active in an area.

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How I Got My First Customer: I Networked From the Very Start

Up and Running

Mike Scanlin runs Born To Sell , a website dedicated to helping investors generate more monthly income from stocks they own, offering a ‘covered call screener’ Previously Mike was a venture capitalist, investment banker and software engineer. Do you have a great story about how you did it?

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

For example: If an advisor meets with the founding team monthly, is involved in recruiting talent for the business, and takes a few customer calls, then that advisor would be entitled to 1 percent of the company in the form of restricted stock or options, vesting over a two-year time frame. Are There Too Many Stock Exchanges?

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