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SXSW Startups: Vence

Austin Startup

I would put our engineering team up against anyone in the world working on building applications for LPWA communications networks. The reality is that agriculture is not software, it is an industry that operates on low margins and is also subject to the whims of mother nature. What is your competitive advantage?

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

San Diego Meetup. San Diego, CA. Experienced Security People (SF) iSEC Partners Application Security Consultant (SF) iSEC Partners Senior Unity Game Programmer App Minis LLC Systems/Operations Engineer (relo assistance available) Advertising.com Software Engineer in Test Advertising.com. Austin, TX.

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The Innovation Insurgency Gets Educated: Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development, …

Steve Blank

Since then 8 universities have taught the Hacking for Defense class or put it on their academic calendar for 2017: UC San Diego , Georgetown , Air Force , University of Pittsburgh , James Madison University , Boise State , RIT, and Stanford. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems.