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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? By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Graphic designers and illustrators are no longer considered a starving artist and computer network technicians are keeping the tech companies running. Hiring for tech jobs in Vancouver is all done online. In 2016, 16.4%

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3 Reasons to Benefit from the Coming Wave of 5G

The Startup Magazine

The majority of consumers thinks that it’s just a better and faster version of mobile Internet like it was with 4G LTE. Certainly, it’ll be the high speed of connection, but actually, it’s the 5th Generation of mobile network. It’ll work with the older generation without a need for immediate removement of the previous network version.

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SXSW Startups: Horizon

Austin Startup

In a short amount of time, and targeting a network that is changing around us, we’re very proud of the progress we’ve made and of the great team we’ve built. We aim to establish this new dimension of gaming and to bring truth and utility to blockchain networks. Moves are impossible to forge and breaking the rules is easily detectable.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. It was the central node of the consumer Internet industry. Follow your network.”.

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Choosing Bad Competition

Reid Hoffman

Before the internet, recruiting was a combination of classified job listings and high-end executive search. When the internet arrived, most of the competitors in the jobs space did what people tend to do with any new technology–cut and paste the old business model into a new medium. ELON MUSK, SPACEX, AND TESLA’S COMPETITION.

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. You can be the sales guy or gal with all the tools you need at your fingertips ­ email, phone, social networks, etc.

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