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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. But for the sake of my example – say 20%.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

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The Founder-Developer Gap and A, B, C Players The challenges that business leaders face when assessing development teams are a good example of the Founder-Developer Gap. And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. The last 10% takes the other half.

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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

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However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. For example, Kaggle is very data science friendly, and most likely, a data scientist is likely on Kaggle. That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in.

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Entrepreneurs Should Forget ROI And Focus On Return On Life – The New Measure Of Wealth

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I became acquainted with Tige, when I was researching examples of exemplary online customer service. How did an American software engineer come to own an adventure travel company cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth?". As I got to know Tige, I became intrigued with his story.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

For example, for one day when you finish your book, you can submit it here, or there--and put those all on your wish list. For example, if you're living in Canada, it's sort of a pain to send to an international tournament, and you can use us as a liaison. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon. LA has the annual Monty Conference.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

Founder Developer Gap and A, B, C Players By the way, this question is another example of issues around the Founder Developer Gap. No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m The last 10% takes the other half.

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