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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

Rose of Gust, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists, and 50,000 by angel investors in the United States each year. Thomas is a software engineer at an app development agency and a fan of everything IT, mobile and tech-related. Many of these failed startups created a product nobody needed or wanted.

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

Rob Go

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). General Assembly – Boston branch of tech classes and workshops started in NYC.

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

blog.expensify.com

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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