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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

It has been a while since I posted to the K9 Ventures blog. I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude. Like a lot, a lot.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Creative Design. Graphic Designing. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Software Testing. Article and Blog Writing. Translation.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well.

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How to launch a startup without knowing a line of code

The Next Web

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. Another example – a marketplace : Tastemaker is a marketplace connecting interior designers with homeowners for small design gigs. The hidden treasures of WordPress.

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

Rob Go

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. Ruby specialists.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. I haven’t blogged about GrabCAD much here at AgileVC in the past, but we’re excited to be invesetors in the company. You can also look at my blog — there is much more there. . January 4, 2012. Author howerl.

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