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

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The relative cost of a hiring a developer and acquiring storage, for example, looks like this: In 1985, storage was a key expense, running $100,000 per gigabyte, while a developer could expect to get paid $28,000 per year. By 2013, things had changed considerably. Developers, on the other hand, are expensive: $90,000 per year.

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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. Find me on: © 2008-2013 All rights reserved. About Posts Press. -->.

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Inside The New Microsoft Office App Store: One Developer’s Story

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Chris Kohlhardt co-founded Gliffy in 2005 to provide an easy way to embed diagrams within wikis, and today users can create org charts, Venn diagrams, flowcharts, floorplans and other diagrams via its Web service, and embed them within Word 2013, Google Docs or Atlassian Confluence. monthly/$49.50 monthly/$99.50 pro tier is also available.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Since 2013, Bitwise has supported people learning new skills in what they call underdog cities like Fresno, Bakersfield and Merced. Software development.

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