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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

When he was 21, he came to America to further his education and quickly earned two Masters of Science degrees – the first in Computer Science and the second in Software Engineering. Looking to Solve Problems. Success and Sustainability.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

In the past 18 months at NextView, we’ve made 13 new investments (out of the 36 we’ve made since the inception of the firm back in 2010). Included in our recent investments in this category are both Dunwello (rethinking how employee feedback and reviews are delivered) and a stealthy investment in NYC empowering software engineers.

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Tuesday, August 17, 2010. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. The only way a software engineer can tell a business idea is a viable is to see the money coming in. There’s the team.

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That Time I Passed on Datadog Because I Didn't Understand the Market

This is going to be BIG.

That was the Datadog pitch in late 2010, my first full year of leading deals, that I got from two software engineers. More parts throw off more data, which makes optimizing and troubleshooting that much harder over time. Makes sense, no? Doesn't sound crazy, does it?

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Sunday, August 15, 2010. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. Most software engineers arent business people. Because software engineers dont work for free.