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An Austin Primer for Female Entrepreneurs— Follow These Leaders & Join These Groups

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Follow on: Medium , and Twitter Sarah Ines Calderon| Women Who Code ATX Lead, Developer Sara Ines Calderon is a developer at Musx, and a lead for Women Who Code ATX Women Who Code is an international nonprofit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. Boss Babes is killing it on that front.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

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making technical recruiting suck less. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. Aline Lerner's Blog. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Vimagino.com. PowerStores.in.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

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At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Next Igor Protsenko presented Profitero , an enterprise software product for helping retailers with price comparison and optimization.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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Then Kristen Becker presented Kir Devries , an e-commerce site that offers a well-edited collection of unique goods for practical everyday living that have been sourced due to their impeccable craftsmanship, unique design and style, and their "good factor" in the moderate price range. Kir Devries. InnovizeTech. Photo by takatuka.

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How we got into Y Combinator

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If you remember 2008, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Now, to be clear, I haven’t reviewed YC applications in a while, but when I did it was pretty mind blowing how little thought most people put into their submissions. Our idea was to fix journalism by monetizing it, and our software was already doing just that.