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

Rob Go

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Startup School – Professional accelerator program for recent graduates. Ruby specialists.

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

Rob Go

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. MIT Start Lab.

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

Rob Go

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Applications due Nov 20 th ! Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. University Resources.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Like programming, business development and accounting system management is a specialty best left to professionals. Even a seemingly simple task of writing a system script might not be the best use of development time. System programming is very different from application development and is not straightforward.

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

blog.expensify.com

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. oz burgers faster than anybody else on the planet.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! What I do like is the coming up with the idea and mapping out the development part. Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself.