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Simply Awesome Leadership in Computer Science Education

Feld Thoughts

I woke up this morning to a post from Fred Wilson titled The Academy For Software Engineering. In it Fred announced a new initiative in New York City called The Academy For Software Engineering. I expect efforts like The Academy For Software Engineering to take this on directly.

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What Is Leadership?

YoungUpstarts

This past year I asked Don Faul to come and speak about Leadership and what he has learned in his career as a Special Forces marine, and senior executive at Google, Facebook, Pinterest and Athos. The following seeks to capture the essence of his conversation with this year’s Fellows: What is Leadership? Becoming a Great Leader.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. A lot of founders will wait and hope that the technical leadership can sort it out.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Providing an agency’s growing technology team with state-of-the-art tools for modern software development also becomes critical. It becomes difficult to effectively source today’s talented software engineers and designers without providing them with the top-shelf tools of the trade.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. Humberto Farias is a seasoned technology professional with over 18 years of experience guiding companies around the world through the custom software development process. Automation.

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Three Methodologies That Help Businesses Stay Creative

YoungUpstarts

It follows a linear, sequential process and is the most common version of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for IT and software engineering projects. In this methodology, leadership inspires teamwork, face-to-face communication , and accountability. Advantages of waterfall. It is easy to manage. Change is embraced.

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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.