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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. Recruiting engineers is hard enough, but having to deal with fake/scam candidates makes it that much harder. Yes, you read that correctly.

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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. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. Joshua Baer & Jason Cohen do this in Austin, Texas. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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We Flew To SXSW So You Don’t Have To

Austin Startup

Staying ahead of the curve in a competitive world Written by: Farouk Dossa , Senior Account Executive SXSW is a film, interactive media, and music festival and conference held in Austin, Texas that draws thousands of people from all over the world. The Lounge had a workspace, small breakout meeting rooms, amazing Texas BBQ, and drinks.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

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

Austin Startup

Sample from Hypergiant , expert data scientist Drew Lipman, and EVP of Design Chris Klee will lead this panel that’s sure to give high-quality advice that goes beyond the hype. Hear from C-suite executives of successful Texas-born and bred companies across varying industries? You don’t need rockstar engineers. Technologist C.K.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys!

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

In an interview with First Round Capital, Dropbox’s Vice President of Product and Design, Todd Jackson, observed : “The PM role needs to be purposely flexible, almost by design. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business. You may have heard the quote: ‘The PM is the CEO of their product.’