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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. Quick Background I was born in Nigeria, but mostly grew up in Dallas, TX. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Think the next big startup can’t come from Dallas, TX? Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Think again. Angry Birds?

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: ROBOAMP

Austin Startup

Improvements in email conversion rate can have a significant positive ripple effect. My name is Roberto Inetti, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been coding since I was seven years old. #Email has always been the workhorse #marketing tactics for e-commerce stores. Learn more about our VIP Accelerator program and how to apply.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. But like conversion did not work. Or was it just like you'd bump into somebody and you'd strike up a conversation?

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 2:29 pm 2500 covers rent,day care for 1, and 2 car notes in dallas. 34 comments ↓ #1 Sean Tierney on 11.18.08

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. Joe enthusiastically led Perot Jain’s support for Capital Factory’s Dallas $100,000 Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge.

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

blog.expensify.com

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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