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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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How to launch a startup without knowing a line of code

The Next Web

The part that would require the most complex development – the true innovation that no one else does. For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. Can a real person perform these tasks manually?

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

Austin Startup

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. I learned that software engineers?—?or or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists. stars to 4.6 Phone calls?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks.