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How To Fix Obamacare

Feld Thoughts

Many years ago I read Fredrick Brooks iconic book on software engineering – The Mythical Man-Month. One of his key messages is that adding additional software engineers to an already late project will just delay things more. It’s 2013. From my perspective, this is exactly the wrong thing to do.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy. Places to Hang.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

You name it.” By 2013, things had changed considerably. Today, engineering pay is at an all-time high, and rising fast : According to Gerstenzang, whose firm has backed Instagram, Pinterest, and other big Internet names, that may be about to change. ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. It’s not accident we have so many great startups targeting commerce including Tradesy, DailyLook, NastyGal, Honest Co & JustFab just to name a few.

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Inside The New Microsoft Office App Store: One Developer’s Story

ReadWriteStart

Chris Kohlhardt co-founded Gliffy in 2005 to provide an easy way to embed diagrams within wikis, and today users can create org charts, Venn diagrams, flowcharts, floorplans and other diagrams via its Web service, and embed them within Word 2013, Google Docs or Atlassian Confluence. monthly/$49.50 monthly/$99.50 pro tier is also available.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Jun 21, 2013. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Name (required). Find me on: © 2008-2013 All rights reserved.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Before starting GreenPal in 2013, I ran a lawn care business for 15 years. Another benefit was that I was able to complete two master’s degrees, one in Software Engineering, and another in Engineering Management. #10 – Lawn Care Business. Image Credit: Bryan Clayton.