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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore. Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

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Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? 1 vote by Elad Gil It's a risk/reward, supply/demand power equilibrium.

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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

New groundbreaking advances occur every year and it’s incredibly hard for new companies to adapt to that technology. Those advances change consumer preferences literally overnight — and the demands of even massive enterprise clients change almost as rapidly. Small is the new big.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? They usually have quality up and coming consultants expert in guiding you in "packaging" your idea. Rockstar v.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?