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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

” Kraus was talking about the economics of startups—the cheapness of servers, networks, and other raw ingredients of computing. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” You name it.”

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Wed, May 10: Innovating in Tech and Quantum Computing (FREE) Join our 100% free speaker series and network with other individuals interested in FinTech, entrepreneurship, technology and startups.

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Why You’d Be Insane To Skip College For Startup Dreams

ReadWriteStart

Nor that billionaire VCs like Peter Thiel have started paying kids to skip school and build startups. While I’d be the first to argue that the best place to learn to code is to download and use open-source software, it was at my university that I was first forced to grapple with foreign concepts and others’ opinions.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

For most web startups, the initial launch of the product would likely have a contained number of users: you, the friends you forced to help you test, and possibly some beta testers. Let’s call that “startup scale.” The jump from “startup scale” to “Facebook scale” will be significant, no matter what your initial choice is.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Web Application Penetration Testing: Features, Importance, and Tips

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Here are some resources that will help you get started with web application penetration testing: OWASP: The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a global community that develops open source security tools and provides information about security vulnerabilities.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Engineering/QA.

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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. John Kieti is a major figure in the city’s startup community. The next step would be to secure funding.

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