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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

You Don’t Need Rockstar Engineers” with Dan Murrel Jr and Karen White @ BigCommerce Once upon a time in computing, it was thought that in addition to junior and senior software engineers, companies needed superhumans that could do the work of many: the mythical rockstar engineer. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Admittedly, I love all of the above, and if none of this sounds underwhelming, you probably are a good personality match for product management.) I learned that software engineers?—?or or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists. Be careful, though! Product management also requires political skill.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. And so it's not just a contractor like sort of matching service. So in some sense that was the investment, right?

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. Photo Credit: Steven Randall. Photo Credit: Grant Gordon.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

On a more serious note, Gordon has a laundry list of founder qualities or experiences that will pique his curiosity: “Have a resume I envy and admire; make a significant contribution at a company I am fascinated by; write a great book or make a great game or TV show; [develop] significant software engineering experience and/or education.&#

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

blog.expensify.com

All it needs is multi methods and pattern matching and it would be the coolest language ever. The depth of your ignorance is only matched by the shallowness of your knowledge on the subject. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. CEO Friday?

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