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How To Fix Obamacare

Feld Thoughts

Many years ago I read Fredrick Brooks iconic book on software engineering – The Mythical Man-Month. One of his key messages is that adding additional software engineers to an already late project will just delay things more. It’s 2013. From my perspective, this is exactly the wrong thing to do.

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

Both Sides of the Table

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. 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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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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January 14th, 2013. The diagram for a fictitious bank website shows two questionable items, namely the staff list and the Karaoke video. When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy. Places to Hang.

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

ReadWriteStart

You name it.” By 2013, things had changed considerably. Today, engineering pay is at an all-time high, and rising fast : According to Gerstenzang, whose firm has backed Instagram, Pinterest, and other big Internet names, that may be about to change. ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

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Jun 21, 2013. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Name (required). Find me on: © 2008-2013 All rights reserved.

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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. It was a huge success, we attracted all best names in the community and people loved it!