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APIs Make the (Crypto) World Go Around

The Startup Magazine

A code depository like GITHUB or other user groups across the web contains loads of free software libraries, code samples, and tools to help newfangled developers. The APIs and software development kits, also known as SDKs, are increasingly being provided by various crypto exchanges. BitcoinJ SDK.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Business / Finance. What are the most common skills in each category?

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Why Don’t We Make Learning A Computer Language A Requirement In High School?

Feld Thoughts

Once a year Howard Lindzon gets together a bunch of his friends at the intersection of financing, tech, media, and entrepreneurship, we descend on The Del in Coronada, and have an awesome 48 hours together. But they don’t teach you software development, which is much more useful, and a lot more fun.

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Why a Tech Startup is Like a Nuclear Power Plant

ReadWriteStart

It was summer 1986, the fall-out from Chernobyl was blowing over Europe and, after graduating in engineering science, I undertook a software development project for the UK Atomic Energy Authority. My first job was writing software systems to monitor the nuclear reactor core and to predict the future failure of cooling components.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

Thematically our new investments include 4 targeting the “Rise of the Developer,” 3 in “Intelligent Automation,” and 1 in “Decentralized Computing;” geographically 4 are in NYC, 3 in Bay Area, and 1 in LA (more on our themes ). Some call this “ambient AI” and I just call it software. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent. I’d bet anything that fewer students that participate in hackNY —will wind up in finance jobs relative to their computer science peers who just follow existing recruiting tracks. So where to start?

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