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[Infographic] 2012 Q3: Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley

YoungUpstarts

Software engineers are extremely high in demand, and over the past few years the growth in their salaries has shown exactly how much in demand they are. Salaries, representative of software engineers and developers at emerging growth companies within the Bay Area – have grown by 5.3-percent Their conclusion?

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

2012 has proved to be a great year for developers – at least as far as financial compensation goes. The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

January 4, 2012. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. GrabCAD continues to grow like a weed with over 70,000 mechanical engineers who have downloaded CAD models from the community over 1.2 How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. And Why 20%?

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team).

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“Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech

Hunter Walker

Laura Weidman Powers: Tristan Walker and I started CODE2040 after working in tech and recognizing 1) how much opportunity there is in this space but 2) how little diversity there is – this was particularly true when we started the organization in early 2012. And now, in 2016, we’re growing our programming for companies.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Mbwana Alliy founded the Nairobi based Savannah Fund in 2012.

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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. startupcto