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Lessons from Facebook on Recruiting Elite Engineers

David Teten

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. It’s hard to find good engineering talent right now, and if you’ve found somebody who knows what they’re doing they probably know others.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Babson Entrepreneur Resource Center. Koa Lab – Shared workspace in Harvard Square founded by serial entrepreneur Andy Palmer. Greentown Labs – Entrepreneur community and accelerator focused on Cleantech.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. Most software engineers arent business people. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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

www.quora.com

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" 5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #4: Seven lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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