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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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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

Although software startups continue to be founded to exploit vertical markets, few of them now compete with legacy, “boxed” software. Rather, the software companies I’ve invested in, such as JazzHR , TaxJar and SimpleLegal , compete with Web 1.0 Vertical Artificial Intelligence.

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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. Ice Cream Sandwich) and will be accessible directly on the web via Google Drive soon. No More Sticky Notes on the Fridge. Available on Google Play, Google Keep runs on Android 4.0 (Ice

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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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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. How do you stand out?”.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. How do you stand out?”.