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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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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been thinking about this since I first started writing code (APL) when I was 12 (ahem – 33 years ago) on a computer in the basement of a Frito-Lay data center in Dallas. One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: ROBOAMP

Austin Startup

My name is Roberto Inetti, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been coding since I was seven years old. You can also subscribe to our Austin Tech Live or Dallas Tech Live newsletters to receive exclusive updates on our community, events, and announcements. Learn more about our VIP Accelerator program and how to apply.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

How the design and structure of the website played a role in usability as well as search engine rankings, working with the outreach team to create great content that would help build valuable links, making sure emails matched the style of the optimized landing pages, and so much more. Shaw, Dallas Web Design Inc ! #15-

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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. It's in Denver, a Chicago, a Seattle, Phoenix, and Dallas. So in some sense that was the investment, right? Learning how to code myself was the investment.

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