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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. Quick Background I was born in Nigeria, but mostly grew up in Dallas, TX. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Think the next big startup can’t come from Dallas, TX? Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Think again. Angry Birds?

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been thinking about this since I first started writing code (APL) when I was 12 (ahem – 33 years ago) on a computer in the basement of a Frito-Lay data center in Dallas. One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: ROBOAMP

Austin Startup

My name is Roberto Inetti, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been coding since I was seven years old. You can also subscribe to our Austin Tech Live or Dallas Tech Live newsletters to receive exclusive updates on our community, events, and announcements. Learn more about our VIP Accelerator program and how to apply.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. It's in Denver, a Chicago, a Seattle, Phoenix, and Dallas. So in some sense that was the investment, right? Learning how to code myself was the investment.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

at 2:29 pm 2500 covers rent,day care for 1, and 2 car notes in dallas. at 2:47 pm $2500 is enough to live on for most people, but it doesn’t even replace half of a decent software developer’s salary. As a former software engineer I hate to admit that sometimes the easiest thing to do is build the software.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. Joe enthusiastically led Perot Jain’s support for Capital Factory’s Dallas $100,000 Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge. We are not East Coast or West Coast. We are the other coast."