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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.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Galvanize at 10:30 am. $79 79 entry fee.

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Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top…

Austin Startup

We’ll fly five of them to Austin for an epic pitch-off resulting in one of them receiving $100,000 in seed funding and a year of free access to Capital Factory’s coworking facility and mentor network. The Central Texas Angel Network is one of the most active angel groups in North America. for the second year in a row.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. I wanted [a term for] something similar (between debt and equity) but on an extremely small scale.”.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Grew up here in the Central Valley of California, left for early work and career in college, bounced around North America for a while, returned home to start this company. I had no network on the West coast. When I first returned to California, I was, again, without job prospects, without a network.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

She is a member of the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, a Fortune Most Powerful Women attendee, and has received numerous accolades, including being chosen as a Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur and American Express. Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry.

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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