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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. Companies of note Learn from companies that have been through the fire--and have lessons to share. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Our online media company is small, we have 6 employees, great proven leaders, great talent, great cashflow. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. More comments at the end. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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