K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers. And the rising powers of our age, the Brazils, the Indias, the Chinas, fight not with tanks and guns but with bits and bytes and rent-a-coder and hard work and hustle.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. Wanted to be a high-energy physicist and dreamt of working in CERN with the LHC.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. But if he were to lose his job, the developer would face the prospect of being forced to return to his native India, relinquishing his toehold in the States. But what’s different about this story are the players involved.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. Upekkha works with SaaS founders of Indian origin that use the India advantage for creating capital efficient growth. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Alpha Lee : I think the GoFundMe would be quite nice, yeah, because we are looking for funding right now, and we are basically 30 chemists in research labs in Ukraine, China, India, working for us making molecules. Let me pledge my support, and I think I can speak for a lot of people in the community, that we're standing by to help.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In thinking through our investment choices, we should keep asking ourselves, if they had a massive shortage of software engineers, What Would China Do? Huge emerging economies in India and Brazil need to be opened up more aggressively with the help of the Congress and White House.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. In it theres meeting with a guru in India who defines what a guru really does. Thanks for all your efforts.

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