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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. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. I’m listing instead companies that are A) under 100 employees AND B) adding >10 employees in the next 3 months. Next major event?

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

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. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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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. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams.

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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?" I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective.

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

Austin Startup

where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company. investors, employees, clients, and partners. There are many competing priorities. This practice is a non-negotiable for me and has become a part of my DNA. in our Series A.

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