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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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Road to Hire to Bring Paid Tech Training and Job Access to Under-Resourced Young Adults (18–25) in…

Austin Startup

The paid, bootcamp-style apprenticeship trains local young adults 18–25 in coding skills, professional development and connects graduates with full-time jobs with premier employers like Red Ventures ?—?with The organization looks forward to finding that same sense of community here in Texas. “As Learn more and apply now !

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Monday, May 8: Grimoire Con 2017 North America This conference shows GrimoireLab updates, use cases and practical workshop/s for developers, community managers, project managers, etc.

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

Both Sides of the Table

But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Joshua Baer & Jason Cohen do this in Austin, Texas. And I really mean everywhere.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

Their suggestion was to write a series of posts that follows the development of an imaginary startup as the company navigates various events, focusing on how each event will impact not only the P&L, but also the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday.

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

Austin Startup

Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, Alex Winkelman Zeplain, Founder of Hello My Tribe, and Autumn Manning , CEO of YouEarnedIt — will open up about their struggles, pressures, and leadership battles to share how they’ve coped and built a community. You don’t need rockstar 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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