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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. At the Austin Convention Center. $99-$3895 Monday, May 8: EFF Austin Meet Up (FREE) We promote the right of all citizens to communicate and share information without unreasonable constraint.

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019! These are 3 successful Austin CEOs who have built significant consumer-facing tech businesses. We reached out to the M.io Vote ] 2. Vote ] 10.

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

The core team — a cross-functional team who could make all the business and technical decisions within a set envelop ? consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. The same thing happened on Friday in Austin.

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

Austin Startup

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. A collaborative mindset is key.

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1TeamWeb Taps Out the Competition

Austin Startup

Dave, Karen, and their family have been great neighbors over the years and, while we may go weeks sometimes not seeing much of each other, due to being involved in our separate professional and personal pursuits, we always know they have our back, just as we have theirs. (No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.)

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Five Whiteboard Coding Interview Tips

Austin Startup

. * Whiteboard interviews are a great way to gauge how someone will work with other engineers on the team. When your ideas are challenged, as they oftentimes will be during code reviews, be receptive to feedback. So, see the interviewer as your partner when trying to solve the problem. Don’t be defensive.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. It had a pretty good technical design. But what about Commodity?