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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. tests new technology on a province-wide scale for industry and government. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. The province has a robust start-up community.

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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. A startup “is a pretty unique place that takes a special person to break in [if] they don't know how to do this,” said Aaron O’Hearn, part of the operating team at TechStars Boston.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. John Kieti is a major figure in the city’s startup community. Nikolai Barnwell currently serves as Program Manager of accelerator 88MPH’s operations in Nairobi.

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Startup Act 3.0: A New Hope For Immigrant Entrepreneurs?

ReadWriteStart

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. While this bill isn’t a cure all for the challenges of building a new digital business, many in the community believe it could help spur innovation and open the door to an estimated 75,000 new entrepreneurs. start-up world.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. It's solely used to make and test compounds against COVID." I am Eric Ries. Eric Ries : First ever?

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs.