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TechStars FounderCon 2012

David Cohen

This year we had 220 alumni founders in Boston for the annual gathering, which culminated in a demo day with entrepreneurs from the Boston TechStars program. FounderCon 2012 was an incredible three days packed with networking, amazing keynote speakers, breakout sessions, and bonding over group meals and a rousing game of Werewolf.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. HBS Angels will likely execute this in 2012. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. WorkBar Boston - Flexible co-working space near South Station. University Resources.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. It’s not accident we have so many great startups targeting commerce including Tradesy, DailyLook, NastyGal, Honest Co & JustFab just to name a few. ”).

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Make School is Rethinking College to Diversify the Tech Workforce

SiliconHills

Jeremy Rossmann, co-founder of Make School, a computer science and software engineering school, based in San Francisco is disrupting higher education. Rossmann founded Make School in 2012 with his high school friend, Ashu Desai. Rossmann dropped out of MIT and […].

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. 07/06/2012. 07/04/2012.

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How Algorithms Rule The World

www.fastcompany.com

By Arnie Cooper | August 29, 2012. In his new book, Aisle50 cofounder Christopher Steiner counts the (many, many) ways digits have come to dominate. "If Anytime you have so many layers of software--algorithms, really--nobody knows how one new layer will affect the other layers. Copyright © 2012 Mansueto Ventures LLC.