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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US.

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

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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. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books

Software By Rob

The thought that kept running through my mind as I read them was: “This information would be helpful if I needed to generate a huge business plan to impress a business-school professor.&# If you think that reading a Seth Godin book will ever put a single item on your task list that will help your startup, you are mistaken.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model. as long as there’s some sort of try-before-you-buy, i think you can safely leave a fully-supported free version off the business plan. If a program is free and popular the support can take a lot of your time from the sheer volume. . #23 m3mnoch on 08.18.10