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Launching a Startup in your spare time

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 -- Launching a Startup in your spare time: Case Study from Manvite.com. Two friends, a marketing executive and a software engineer, had an idea to challenge a large web incumbent without leaving their day jobs. How can you get a web startup going without leaving your day job?

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. That gives 60 impressions per attendee per hour, which adds up fairly quickly when you're serving up hundreds of thousands of webinars a month. What's your background, and how did you get into this?

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LA-Based Coding Bootcamp Codesmith Boasts 96% Hiring Rate

Tech.Co

Fortunately, study after study has shown that IT professionals and computer science graduates are going home with the biggest paychecks on a regular basis. The key to creating software engineers that are capable and effective in their roles is to teach more than coding. Finding a job can be hard.

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

InfoChachkie

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?". We both lived in the city (San Francisco), she was in event marketing and I was a software engineer.

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

InfoChachkie

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?". We both lived in the city (San Francisco), she was in event marketing and I was a software engineer.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

Megan Palmer, a fellow and biosecurity researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, hoped DARPA’s program would encourage a more holistic approach to biosafety in a growing field where many people, such as software engineers, might not have thought much about biosafety and security risks.

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