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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 Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm.

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. 27:06) Helpwithcovid's DNA. (27:55)

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. One of their partners reached out to us after the key paper got published late last year. I am Eric Ries. When did you apply to YCombinator? Eric Ries : They reached out to you?

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. March 25, 2011 at 7:16 pm.

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