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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Ruby specialists.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

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. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Raizlabs – Mobile Development. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.

Boston 72
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Some additional comments at the end.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.