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8 of the Hottest Jobs in Information Technology

The Startup Magazine

Technical Support Technicians . Technical support specialists is another name for help desk technicians, operations analysts, or problem managers. Technical support technicians manage hardware and software issues at the basic user level. . Mobile App Developers . Network Engineers .

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. This program offers resources from beginning to end, offering office space, in-house technical support, experienced mentors, and valuable funding resources.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer. Web Developer. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Platform Software Developer. Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash).

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Answer: All self-taught.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". From "Think and Grow Rich".

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market. Unfortunately, we completely abandoned the “technical support marketplace” after the dot bomb crash and began licensing our screen-sharing technology.

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