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Entrepreneur That Grew Up In A Household of Educators Creates Solution to Education Challenges

Hearpreneur

There’s many ways to learn but for most developers and coders it’s hard to learn any other way then by doing. Right now, we’re focused on teaching two verticals: Web Development and User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design. How is it unique? Any major accomplishments? .

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). At the same time, there were several larger players in the market such as Freelancer and Rent-a-coder.

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

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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Part 1: Behind the scenes of a seed round

hippoland.tumblr.com

Coder/marketer from the Bay Area. I tried to find investors who had portfolio companies in the ads and email verticals. Elizabeth Yin: co-founder of LaunchBit. Ex-Googler and previously traipsed around the world working/living/consulting/goofing off on 4 continents. Once lived on a tall ship for 5 weeks. 16 8 / 2012. The Pipeline.

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Libox Wants To Manage All of Your Media and on Any Device (Interview with Erez Pilosof)

VC Cafe

He’s a coder himself and believes that any problem can be solved. We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals. Uploading downloading, saving files, connect it with cables here and there, facing compatibility issues… a mess. He then thought, let’s rethink how we share and view the whole media.

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