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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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Developer Funding – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money (Google I/O Panel)

VC Cafe

A lot is happening because we have deployment platforms, code platforms, and now we have capital platforms like angellist. The top 10-15 we manually review. Companies like Yammer are doing social enterprise – taking enterpise software and leveraging the users. Development for equity. 72,000 projects listed.

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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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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. Engineering/QA. To that I say baloney.

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1TeamWeb Taps Out the Competition

Austin Startup

Dave, Karen, and their family have been great neighbors over the years and, while we may go weeks sometimes not seeing much of each other, due to being involved in our separate professional and personal pursuits, we always know they have our back, just as we have theirs. (No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.)

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Culture creation is not easy.