Building software — that you’re both proud of AND meets business needs — means making a few tradeoffs. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder, BizeeBee & Femgineer) As technologists we want to build software that is friendly, fast, beautiful, reliable, secure and...
12 software engineers share nuggets of advice about job hunting, learning to code, hunting for your first development job and more. By Angie Chang (VP Strategic Partnerships, Hackbright Academy) Here are the top 12 golden pieces of forward-thinking, action-oriented...
Don’t try to get really good at something you suck at. Instead, get really good at hiring people who are already have that skill set. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder, BizeeBee & Femgineer) There are a lot of things I really suck at. The first is visual...
Don’t fixate on the mainstream users at the start. Focus on your early adopters, and you can monetize early — before you even have a product. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder, BizeeBee & Femgineer) When I was six I took my first stab at being an...
Get brand exposure and connect with a talented and diverse group of tech workers at the HowTo Conference. By Ayesha Rizvi (Editorial & Multimedia Assistant, Women 2.0) Be it demos of cutting-edge products and services or a place to recruit and be recruited for...