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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. John Kieti is a major figure in the city’s startup community.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Go direct and network your way to the people you need to meet or find them directly in the local community. Plenty of people are willing to help you for free.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos. Thanks, Chris! Thanks, Adriano!

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

We’re highlighting key members of the community to find out. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. But just who are these funds and venture capitalists that run them? VatorNews : What do you like to invest in?

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Community Manager. Software Engineer. Senior Ruby Engineer. Email Address. Jobs and Gigs.