YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
In 2000, the company had slightly more than 22,000 workers in the United States and nearly 30,000 workers overseas. Today, Oracle has 40,000 workers in the United States and 66,000 abroad. For example, workers in Europe have fewer incentives than workers in the United States to work hard.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 5, 2010
He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 16, 2013
Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation. Week 0 - New Feature 1 - Software engineers are busy building brand new features. Growth changed all that. Over a thousand people work here now.
David Teten
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
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.
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) 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. to attend Carnegie Mellon University.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3 ”).
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
Bitcoin is a software engineer’s implementation of money (as distinct from, for example, a politician’s, banker’s, or economist’s). It follows. I’m with Seth; I think bitcoin is interesting on several levels, including as a real-life experiment with a semi-decentralized currency.
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