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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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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

Just take a look at one of the most impressive examples: in 2018, Amazon’s net profit exceeded $10 billion , which is twice as much as in 2017. However, if you strive to highlight your exceptionalism, develop a unique design and cater to customers’ needs in a better way, a simple theme won’t be enough for you. Hourly rate.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. That means the established firms created no new net jobs during that period.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

But what you may not know is that Nguyen actually designed the first user interface for the Color app. For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

These emerging market economies are now tired of being mere producers of “Designed in California” products and are starting to invest in innovation. This increased competition reduces the benefits of globalization for American companies and their employees, but the net effect remains largely positive.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Anyway, thanks Stevey for your thoughtful post.

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