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Developer Evangelism

15 September, 2014

Original post by Developer-Evangelism The developer evangelism handbook This handbook will get you on the way to be a great developer evangelist for any product or company. Of course your approach needs tweaking for different markets and audiences – and in accordance with your own personality – but the main principles are the same for […]

How to organize a hackathon: 6 key tips

11 September, 2014

Original post by Lyndsey Gilpin via TechRepublic Thinking about organizing a hackathon to power up new innovations? Read these tips to make sure you host a fun, impactful event. Hackathons have taken the world by storm, happening all over the globe and across many different industries. The events, which typically last between a full day and […]

This 23-Year-Old Built and Sold His Startup While in School – Here’s How He Did It

9 September, 2014

Original post by First Round Review From the moment Dan Shipper (on the left, above) stepped foot on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, he knew he wanted to learn how to build a real software business with paying customers and steady revenue. He passed with flying colors last month when he both graduated from school and sold his company Firefly (the […]

Startup Staffing: 10 Things A Good Leader Can Do To Keep Their Employees Motivated

8 September, 2014

Original post by Edmund Ingham via Forbes If you want to know if a fish is bad, look at its head, they say. No role in life is more dependent on success and failure than that of a leader. Some see the pressure that comes with managing others as a burden, others see it as a […]

Top Tech Tips: 10 Things The Best Programmers Do

3 September, 2014

Original post by siliconallee This is a guest post by Ola Pszczoła of netguru. You are an experienced developer, but you want to be great. You’ve worked with a couple of companies and noted that each has its own way and working style. Some companies put value in TDD, while others care about clean code. Then there […]