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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. TechStars Boston – Boston chapter of TechStars. Applications due Nov 20 th ! Dog Patch Labs - Free workspace run by Polaris Ventures.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Although I have an EE and CS education, my best contribution to technology businesses has been in strategy/sales/marketing/leadership. I’ve had 7 jobs in Silicon Valley in software development companies, but 6 of the 7 were in business development. Big boy applications.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Mass TLC Unconference : Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Now doing 2 classes each year!

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

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers.

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

blog.expensify.com

My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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