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

The Next Web

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. They snagged Lala for $80 million in December, 2009. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work.

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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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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ▼ 2009. (7). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Bootstrapping 101. One of my colleagues, Joel West, beat me to the punch with a summary of the program. ► September. (2). ► July. (1).

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating.

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