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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Technical Writer. Software Engineer. Senior Ruby Engineer.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. Not a single one of his developers came out of school as usable commercial software developers. Don''t get me wrong--I think software literacy is extremely important. Answer: All self-taught.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

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And best of all, we get Rackspace fanatical support. With the previous provider it took days to get to the bottom of the issue, primarily because technical support did not respond quickly enough. With Rackspace we experience nearly instant support. The machines are running smoothly, we never had to reboot them.

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