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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

The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting. apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8 Automation.

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Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia

Cracking the Code

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. On the 4th of July, 2015, I shared my vision with Erin. GreenPal’s vision is to become the operating system and platform that makes the lawn care industry run smoothly.

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

Austin Startup

The product often has an army behind it including customer support representatives, account managers, development operations managers, engineers, quality assurance analysts, designers, researchers, data scientists and more. I learned that software engineers?—?or Don’t get trapped inside four walls?—?invest

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. 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.