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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

How it says it differs from rivals: Netmaker and its cohort-mate Firezone are both open source, faster alternatives to existing VPN software. Founders: CTO Dillon Carns and CEO Alex Feiszli left their software engineering gigs to develop Netmaker. Our thoughts: Hot take: Squarespace is expensive.

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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

TechCrunch

The average salary for a software engineer is around €54,000. Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018.

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Haxe: Cross-platform Development's Best-kept Secret

Toptal

Since it first appeared in 2005, it's been battle-tested by its loyal—if rather quiet—following. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Kevin Bloch explores the Haxe ecosystem and how to transpile some sample code.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. Today, Klarna is most certainly a tech company, employing 1,300 software engineers out of a staff of over 3,500.

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10 Best Colleges in India for Computer Science [Private & Government]

The Crazy Programmer

Computer Science Engineering (CSE) encapsulates a variety of topics like programming languages, software, hardware, robotics, computation, analysis of algorithms, etc. In India, there are more than 3800 Computer Science Engineering colleges. What are the career opportunities after CSE?

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO

There’s high demand for software engineers, web developers, IT support specialists, network administrators and architects, data scientists, and cybersecurity professionals, according to CompTIA. The average tech salary in Charlotte is $118,465 per year — a 11.1% increase from 2021, according to Dice. Sacramento, Calif.