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January 2012

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Corporate Refugee: 3 Ways a Reverse Mentor Can Help You Break Into Tech (or keep you from becoming a dinosaur) → kristalbergfield.tumblr.com

kristalbergfield:

A lot of people in traditional corporate jobs ask me for advice on how to make the move to tech. One of the things I tell many of them is to find a reverse mentor.

A reverse mentor is when the student becomes the teacher. When someone (often) less experienced than you offers valuable…

Jan 17, 20121 note

August 2011

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milewise: How we used Node.js to build real-time award flight search → blog.milewise.com

milewise:

Phew! Long title.

We built MileWise’s real-time search engine from the ground up using Node.js and MongoDB.

Flight prices change really quickly, so we can’t cache results for very long. After 15 minutes or so, it’s highly unlikely the rock-bottom price you were eyeing is still…

Aug 15, 201157 notes

#development #node.js #socket.io #github

April 2011

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Mark Birch. Strong Opinions.: Revisiting NYC Tech Incubators and Accelerators → birch.co

marksbirch:

Over the past several weeks, I have found more incubator and accelerator programs for tech start-ups in NYC. As I always explain to start-up founders, such programs are not necessary. If you get in and use the program to its fullest advantage however, they can clearly provide a leg up. The…

Apr 11, 2011146 notes

November 2010

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The Sisqokid: Experience → bsiscovick.tumblr.com

bsiscovick:

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to spend an hour one on one with Fred Wilson. Fred is arguably the premier venture capitalist in the world today. Between his investment track record (Twitter, Zynga, Etsy, Foursqaure, etc.) and obnoxiously awesome blog (*the* standard against which all…

Nov 12, 20109 notes