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4 Great Jobs That Don’t Require Experience

YoungUpstarts

Although it isn’t going to bring in the most money, it is a great way to sharpen your skills while building a portfolio in addition to expressing your creativity. Applications Developer. ” The field of IT offers numerous specializations, including networking, software development, cybersecurity, and more.

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5 Tech Business Ideas You Can Start Fresh Out Of College

The Startup Magazine

A dynamic skill that’s easy to learn without formal instruction is mobile application development. When it comes to proving your expertise, graphic design is one field where your portfolio is worth more than your pedigree. Create Smartphone Apps. Starting a tech company can involve some legwork in the beginning.

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How to Build the Next Huge Mobile App

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The mobile applications are fast becoming the primary vehicle to access what I call “connected services” to discover people, information and entertainment. Thus the application developers would have to think differently about getting user attention and engagement. Pulse News* is a great example of such an application.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. How are investors thinking and protecting against volatility in their portfolios?

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

Rob Go

Smaller, High Quality Meetups and Places to Learn: Open Coffee - Weekly informal meetup started by Bijan Sabet and Nabeel Hyatt. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). RoughDraft.VC.

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card.io: Like Square, but without the square

K9 Ventures

I’m pleased to announce the developer launch of K9 Ventures’ portfolio company, card.io (pronounced card-I-O). is the simple and secure way to accept credit cards in mobile applications. If you’re a mobile app developer, you can request early access to the card.io It’s been a busy week folks!

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

With the pending arrival of the iPhone 5 in September, as well as new tablets from Amazon, Microsoft and Apple expected in the fall, the world is progressively mobile first and the Windows duopoly has been completely cracked, resulting in more end user computing device application development in the last two years than in the previous 10.

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