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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. Irony, hey?).

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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. New wave tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have to hire thousands of developers with six-figure salaries to offer products that work well.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

firstround.com

Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. When Google offered me a job in 2006, turning it down wasn’t an option. at least until one of our new hires requested one.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. So if you do find your duplicate, hire them as soon as possible.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

And so when that revenue tripled and suddenly I was like, Oh, I can hire people to help me, like this thing is gonna work. 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. Like phone calls are inaccurate.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Hire or Contract Good System Administrator This one is the last and the simplest tip of all. Dala December 19, 2007 at 10:17 am BigBlueHat » Blog Archive » Review: 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups December 27, 2007 at 2:41 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR… « The Startup Guy.

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