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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Since 2015, the rising interest abroad continues to contribute to steady growth. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. Humberto Farias is a seasoned technology professional with over 18 years of experience guiding companies around the world through the custom software development process. In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

When I was working on the Google Maps team, I got to know how powerful mobile mapping was, and what mobile was capable of doing. Because of this background, I was well positioned to launch a company to solve the problems of field sales based on a mobile mapping platform. On the 4th of July, 2015, I shared my vision with Erin.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I learned that software engineers?—?or When I joined my team, I was told the most important metric of success for the supplier-side mobile experience was monthly active users (MAUs). E.g. , Mobile? or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists. Here’s a real example from my own role at HomeAway.

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Twitter Link Roundup #247 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Food Trucks 101: How to Start a Mobile Food Business – crowdspring.co/1qW98Xf. Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. Web Design and Digital Content Ghost Buttons, The First Potential Trend of 2015 | Top Design Magazine – crowdspring.co/1qdyijB. 12 Best Free Invoice Generators – crowdspring.co/1G58WrV.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. Joe Beard joined Perot Jain as a Partner in 2015. She hosts technical and networking events for developers and designers in Austin and also facilitate partnerships with local tech companies.