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South by Southwest Interactive is inviting coders and designers in the Austin area to participate in a Hackathon at the end of this month. The SXSW hackathon focuses on finding “a correlation between health-related data and patient care.” ” The 24-hour event takes place Sept. 29th and 30th at Conjuctured Coworking at 1309 East 7th Street [.] The post SXSW Hosts a Health Data Hackathon in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology MORE
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Now he wants to be a computer programmer and work at […] The post CodeHS Turns Kids Into Coders appeared first on SiliconHills. By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In the first CodeHS program at Highlands High School this year, Ernest Rodriguez learned to program a computer and to do animation. “I I saw the opportunity and I took advantage of it,” said Rodriguez, a freshman. MORE
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His “trustworthy&# friends have day jobs and play warcraft in their spare time, which leaves him with a few outsourced coders to make his product for him. Not to mention, how is this person to know that these outsourced coders are as good as they claim to be? Well, he doesn’t know how good these outsourced coders are. And since this person isn’t a coder, he doesn’t know what kind of questions to ask his prospective engineering team. MORE
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He was Course 6 and easily one of the best coders around, even though we didn’t call them coders there. This is not a post about a bubble, real or imagined. It’s a lesson from when I was 20 years old. I showed up at MIT as an eager freshman. I was 17, from Dallas, with a nice pair of cowboy boots and long hair. On my first day, at the freshman picnic, I heard that 50% of us would end up in the bottom half of our class. MORE
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JUNE 6, 2016
Apprentices earn a living salary on their first day, and we as a tech community can support a program that puts more coders in the market with a keen eye toward diversity and opportunity while getting work completed. The post More Coders. If there’s one consistent concern I hear from the companies I work with, it’s the shortage of qualified tech talent.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Can we afford to wait for the rise of these coders to attend the workforce? Therein lies the need for the citizen coder. Self-taught and digitally native, the citizen coder is a symbol of 21st century success and a ready-made solution to a yawning skills gap.
SiliconHills
MAY 20, 2014
Now he wants to be a computer programmer and work at […] The post CodeHS Turns Kids Into Coders appeared first on SiliconHills. By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In the first CodeHS program at Highlands High School this year, Ernest Rodriguez learned to program a computer and to do animation. “I I saw the opportunity and I took advantage of it,” said Rodriguez, a freshman.
Start Up Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
As a startup entrepreneur I often get asked if I’m coder. Yes, we’re all coders. I used to say no. My answer used to be something like: our job as an entrepreneurs is to organise the factors of production, not be them. But I’ve recently changed my answer to yes regarding the coding question. And no, I haven’t gone out and learned PHP or Ruby or the latest groovy language. My code is the english language.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
A new report captures racial bias in hiring of engineers and suggests coders of all ethnicities should look for jobs outside Silicon Valley
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 18, 2017
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Inc Startups
JANUARY 21, 2016
PowerToFly co-founder Katharine Zaleski doesn't buy the pipeline problem argument, and built a hiring platform to prove it
Inc Startups
JUNE 15, 2015
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Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
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Rob Go
APRIL 26, 2012
I had the pleasure of spending a few hours last night at the Boston Technovation event at MIT. It was a lot of fun, and a really impressive, nationwide effort. Their mission from their website is as follows: “The mission of the Technovation Challenge is to promote women in technology by giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer science and entrepreneurship.
Inc Startups
MAY 23, 2013
A grandmaster ninja coder can’t be a real manager and still code. You feel like your top salesperson or coder will feel the same way. It seems to make perfect sense that your first hires should become managers as your company grows. Think again.
Inc Startups
OCTOBER 7, 2015
From Zurich to Mountain View, this prodigy knows what he's doing
Christine.net
APRIL 24, 2009
Rafe Needleman continued his developers-in-the-cloud theme at the Microsoft campus this afternoon, with an Under the Radar judging panel that includes First Round Capital 's very own Rob Hayes. Here are the presenters, roughly in my order of personal preference: Twilio. helps developers to build and run voice applications cheaply. Their core XML API offers the basics used in most voice applications.
Inc Startups
APRIL 20, 2018
You don't need to be a professional coder to build a successful app.
Inc Startups
JANUARY 5, 2017
The Altdesk is ideal for coders, artists, or anyone who has to check email
Inc Startups
APRIL 12, 2017
Coders call it brain hacking, or addiction coding, and it could be dangerous to your health. Smartphones are addictive. Technology
Mark Birch
AUGUST 10, 2011
In a world where the barrier to entry for building a web app has become so low, a DIY culture of self-taught coders has sprung up in our modern day version of the gold rush. No, I believe that there is immense value in the DIY coder culture.
Inc Startups
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
The average coder working for the likes of Apple, Amazon, Uber and others make more than $200,000 when salary, equity and bonuses are all added up
View from Seed
MAY 24, 2017
They’ve sparked a movement, cracked the code on finding great coders, and have attracted investors like Mark Zuckerberg. Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. Visit andela.com to learn more, or follow Christina at twitter.com/sasschristina. Channel Links: iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher , Google Play.
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JULY 14, 2014
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Inc Startups
JUNE 1, 2015
A basic understanding of various programming languages can benefit anyone, even if you're not looking to become a master coder
Christine.net
MARCH 6, 2006
« Some Updates to Christine.net | Main | OReilly Radar Redux » Proverbs for Would-Be Founders OReilly Medias entrepreneur-in-residence, Marc Hedlund, explored entrepreneurship with a group of coders at the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference (Etech) in San Diego today.
Jessica Mah
MAY 1, 2008
His “trustworthy&# friends have day jobs and play warcraft in their spare time, which leaves him with a few outsourced coders to make his product for him. Not to mention, how is this person to know that these outsourced coders are as good as they claim to be? Well, he doesn’t know how good these outsourced coders are. And since this person isn’t a coder, he doesn’t know what kind of questions to ask his prospective engineering team.
Austin Startup
JUNE 13, 2016
Half the coders I know were… Continue reading on Austin Startups I’m pretty sure that to be a legit millennial, you’re not supposed to work in the field you got a degree in.
Jessica Mah
JULY 21, 2008
I hear it all the time — coders want to start their own companies and keep all those “biz dev&# and marketing gurus out for as long as possible. They’re an incredibly rare breed — harder to find than even coders are! Tags: Business Coding Jessica's Life Leadership Marketing Persuasion Staffing biz dev coder company david mah e-myth expert fake guru incompetent partnership programmer small business technician
Jessica Mah
APRIL 15, 2008
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Inc Startups
MAY 11, 2015
Too many companies are wedded to old code--because their old coders are. Stop trying to patch your way to the future. You need fresh ideas--and maybe some fresh eyes
The Next Web
MAY 16, 2017
Hiring interdisciplinary coders who could help keep kids really engaged on their self-made computers. Growth Story is a new 4-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped to really grow their company.
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
South by Southwest Interactive is inviting coders and designers in the Austin area to participate in a Hackathon at the end of this month. The SXSW hackathon focuses on finding “a correlation between health-related data and patient care.” ” The 24-hour event takes place Sept. 29th and 30th at Conjuctured Coworking at 1309 East 7th Street [.] The post SXSW Hosts a Health Data Hackathon in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
South by Southwest Interactive is inviting coders and designers in the Austin area to participate in a Hackathon at the end of this month. The SXSW hackathon focuses on finding “a correlation between health-related data and patient care.” ” The 24-hour event takes place Sept. 29th and 30th at Conjuctured Coworking at 1309 East 7th Street [.] The post SXSW Hosts a Health Data Hackathon in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology
Mark Birch
MAY 7, 2014
Despite the misgivings by others about these bootcamps teaching hordes of newbie coders to write bad code, there is clearly a huge gap in the market for talent that is not being served other programs. Coding bootcamps will graduate 6,000 people in 2014 via VentureBeat.
The Next Web
AUGUST 12, 2016
When I first got started in entrepreneurship, it seemed like everybody in the world was pushing me to become a coder. For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt the pain of being a ‘non-technical’ founder working on a technical startup.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 19, 2011
The purpose of binpress is to save coders time coding by finding existing solutions to time consuming problems. They also have an in-house affiliate program for coders and Internet marketers. - Far from being gimmicky, Binpress can save coders lots of time and money.
Texas Startup Blog
JUNE 23, 2010
Are you a coder, developer or a hacker? There is a an angel group made up of self described hackers designed for you. The group is called Hacker Angels and includes Going Inc. founder and current AOL executive Roy Rodenstein, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Duck Duck Go’s Gabriel Weinberg, Hotornot’s Jim Young, and Punchfork founder
www.peterdrew.net
OCTOBER 23, 2010
first of all you need a project to use to source a good coder. This product needs to be a product you create specifically for the purpose of finding a coder. Good coders, just code and get paid to code, its that simple. This is the kind of coder you are looking for.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 31, 2013
Developer mentors and judges from AT&T, i.am.angel, Google, Scopely, CGI, Factual, and ESRI and the City and County of LA will support coders during the weekend. Not a coder? Tomorrow LA is hosting an important tech event - please consider registering and coming by.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
This is where you find the superb Rails coder, AND the world-class information architect, AND the consummate sales guy, AND the persuasive biz dev gal, AND the brilliant CFO. That is why it is not uncommon to see big enterprise sales people making high six figure, or even seven figure, salaries or commissions, while a neophyte coder might be in the low five figure range. Engineer Irwin Cantor (the coder)?
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
Having a coder as part of the founding team is essential. A founding web/mobile team without a coder past the initial stages of Customer Discovery is not a startup. “ By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.”. Book of Five Rings.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js to host your company name, email, calendar, etc. For coders: set up a web host. For non-coders: Make a quick prototype in PowerPoint, or. For coders: build the User Interface.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 23, 2015
He was Course 6 and easily one of the best coders around, even though we didn’t call them coders there. This is not a post about a bubble, real or imagined. It’s a lesson from when I was 20 years old. I showed up at MIT as an eager freshman. I was 17, from Dallas, with a nice pair of cowboy boots and long hair. On my first day, at the freshman picnic, I heard that 50% of us would end up in the bottom half of our class.
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