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

Both Sides of the Table

I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November. I know that theres a lot of GroupOn bashing still in the press, but you can’t deny the kickstart its had on the local Chicago tech community. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC? These are industries that start to open up new commercial zones like Cincinnati (home to P&G & Kroger) and Chicago. Deflationary Economics now favors us. ”).

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

There is also Chicago-based Code Academy (not to be confused with Codecademy, the free online program to learn the rudiments of coding) that teaches both coding skills and entrepreneurship in a three-month program. Bishay also wants to dispel the myth that software engineers are some type of super people. “I

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Why Software Development Estimations Are Regularly Off

Diego Basch

This view has been debunked decades ago; this analogy was frequently seen as an aspiration for the future when I did my Master in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in the late nineties. When asked to hike between New York and Chicago, he will be much more accurate.

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

This site is a wonderful resource for Chicago-area with disabilities; essentially a version of Yelp targeted to folks who need special accommodation in their everyday life. 275,000 software engineers work together on this platform to deliver results to client companies world-wide. JJ’s List.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

In addition, San Francisco is within striking distance of other major US B2B tech markets, like New York and Chicago. A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and I bet you it's more than one bike if I had the gas. So did you, I'm envisioning you like going down the street in Chicago somewhere knocking on restaurant doors and saying, I have an idea, you want to like be part of this.

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