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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. This insight has begun to change how we teach entrepreneurship, incubate startups and fund them. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Buyable Startup s: Born to Flip.

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Binpress – A Marketplace to Find Affordable and Trustworthy Code for Web Development

VC Cafe

Binpress , the latest project by the Israeli startup incubator Lionite is making waves in the coding community with their source code marketplace. The purpose of binpress is to save coders time coding by finding existing solutions to time consuming problems. Far from being gimmicky, Binpress can save coders lots of time and money.

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How To Get Hired At A Startup Without Experience

YoungUpstarts

A coder who says he has a passion for coding but has never built anything with code will be far less convincing than someone has one or two projects that demonstrated his seriousness. It is a fast-paced business incubator where A-players are highly prized. d) Related side products. Execute your 90 day plan.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies.

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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

mashable.com

Techcofounder If you’re starting a company, chances are you either are a coder or need a coder. Coders can create anonymous profiles and accept solicitations to work on projects or join a team. Entrepreneurs can browse coders by skill or location. This site will help you out either way.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries.

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