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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

As noted in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , this is a symptom of the old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Then, a month later, the product is still 90% done. And six weeks later – 90% again! The last 10% takes the other 90%.

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No Co-Founder? Y Combinator Offers Matchmaking at Startup School

Xconomy

There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises. From the moment Talia Frenkel resolved to found a company after a kitchen-table talk with her parents, the odds were against her.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Benchling Scores $14.5M to Grow Online Lab Notebook for Bio-Researchers

Xconomy

That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

Tim Urban’s Wait But Why blog does a great job of describing today’s AI capabilities. Vertical Artificial Intelligence. An expansive and lucrative greenfield opportunity, especially for startups, is the vertical applications of artificial intelligence.

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At First Summit, 7CTOs Takes Baby Step to San Diego Tech Buildup

Xconomy

As a software engineer and self-described “tech guy,” de Bruin says he is more interested in. Search for “CEO books” on Amazon, and the search results from the world’s largest Internet-based retailer return just over 8,000 titles. A search for “CTO books,” on the other hand, yields about 540 titles.

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Google Retires Reader Launches Google Keep To Take On Evernote

Tech Zulu Event

Katherine Kuan, Software Engineer at Google in a blog post said, “Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember. However, Google had something else in mind, launching a service that might even be better than Google Reader. No More Sticky Notes on the Fridge.

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