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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. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. I’ve also run my own development consultancy (The212) for ~10 years and have built projects for numerous companies like eBay, IBM, American Express and Ogilvy & Mather. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

However, these websites come with different reach, work requirements, and payment terms. You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Mobile App Development. Game Development. Translation.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

firstround.com

Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. Date: September 4, 2013.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks.