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Solving Hard Problems: Traptic’s Harvesting Robots

K9 Ventures

The wheat would be harvested with sickles and then threshed by hand to separate the grain. But then, I drove down through Watsonville, CA on the way to Monterrey and saw acres and acres of strawberry, lettuce, and other ground crops that were still being harvested by humans — with their hands. Vinh Phan, Traptic.

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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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[Interview] PSB Academy: Up-Skilling In A New Learning Economy

YoungUpstarts

For example, in hospitality and digital marketing; hospitality and entrepreneurship; hospitality and IT, hospitality and engineering, just to name a few. For example, if we look at the food industry today, technology plays a very important role in ensuring quality food are harvested, processed, cooked, marketed, and distributed.

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Search Engine Optimization Algorithm Changes For 2017

YoungUpstarts

Search engine optimization is a practice used to help your website rank higher in the search results fields of major search engines. If you have had a site on the Internet for any amount of time, you have probably been hearing about these engines and the technology that helps rank pages properly.

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4 Ways Sales Can Help Your Company Offset Losses From Trump’s Trade Wars

YoungUpstarts

tech industry , companies using steel , and manufacturers of engineered hardwood floors are already feeling the pain. If your business has been affected by changes in trade, it is time for your sales leaders to harvest the goodwill from those connections.

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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

SoCal CTO

The reality is that an early employee in a pre-funded startup that eventually raises a few rounds of capital will be diluted significantly, is down the line in preference, and will likely be locked up for a while to harvest it. Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66 Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33

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Harvesting Water and Other Resources from Asteroids in Space

SiliconHills

Scott Wilcox, the director of South by Southwest Eco introduced the conference’s kickoff keynote address by Chris Lewicki, the president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources, Monday morning. “I am really excited about our opening speaker,” Wilcox said. “He helms a company whose vision is to do the impossible now.

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