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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. The same thing happened on Friday in Austin. The core team — a cross-functional team who could make all the business and technical decisions within a set envelop ?

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MeasrFood, a Smart Food Scale, Wins Intel’s Internet of Things Roadshow in Austin

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Americans have a problem counting calories which contributes to skyrocketing rates of obesity, said Brad Hughes, software engineer at National Instruments. Austin Intel Internet of Things'

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Killer Events – Think about what a wonderful benefit Austin gets by hosting SxSW every year. Once per year we all have a reason to be in Austin so you’re naturally going to want to get to know the local tech scene, lowering the barrier to people wanting to move there, invest there and spend time there. Austin has Dell.

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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

If you're planning to be in Austin, please come say hello. SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH - Hilton Austin Downtown KEYNOTES & CASE STUDIES FROM. Software Engineer Steven VanRoekel CIO Dan Greenberg Co-Founder & CEO CHECK OUT THE AGENDA. > (This year, we're battling both the flu and the Congressional sequester.)

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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. My undergrad was in Nutritional Science at UT Austin, and I have a graduate business degree from Arizona State University. This has all been a plot twist I didn’t think was possible.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At the Austin Convention Center. $99-$3895

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Robots as Tools, Toys and Teachers

SiliconHills

Mike Ford, a software engineer at Trion Worlds, spoke Monday night to a group of around 30 people at Austin RB meetup at Capital Factory about the Artoo technology [.] By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News You too, can make your own robot, using Artoo, a micro-framework for robotics using the programming language Ruby.

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