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What Is Leadership?

YoungUpstarts

This past year I asked Don Faul to come and speak about Leadership and what he has learned in his career as a Special Forces marine, and senior executive at Google, Facebook, Pinterest and Athos. The following seeks to capture the essence of his conversation with this year’s Fellows: What is Leadership? Becoming a Great Leader.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. Glimpse the future and get inspired!

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

The policy conversation regarding jobs and economic development is starting to show some promising signs, particularly in helping young companies flourish. In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. I sure hope that leadership is on its way.

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Sample @ Hypergiant Over the past five years, the tech industry has pushed the implementation of conversational intelligence, but actual execution presents several challenges. This will no doubt be a lively conversation that fiercely debates diverse investment approaches. You don’t need rockstar engineers. Technologist C.K.

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We Flew To SXSW So You Don’t Have To

Austin Startup

If you couldn’t make it, here are some interesting insights based on conversations we had and exhibits we visited. She and her team had worked hard to convince their leadership that sponsoring the Capital Factory Lounge would be a good step in shifting the Walmart culture towards becoming more innovative.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

In addition, there are different ways to build a growth team no matter the reporting and leadership structure. Software Engineer. ” You also need strong leadership and management skills in this role. ” Software Engineers. Image Source. Product Manager. Marketing Specialist. Data Analyst.