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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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In the early 2000s, digital design and development freelancers were sort after – I was fresh out of University (having completed a degree in Media Arts) and was hungry for work. The day after receiving my degree, I was in my car driving across North America to start a job at a promising technology startup.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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