Nice to see the DC community coming together
I know it is exciting. I hope to blog about it and would love to meet the we are ny tech people too
steve - http://1x57.com
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#22This is great. We created a similar site earlier this year for Durham, NC startups at http://downtowndurhamstartups.com I think it's helpful in these areas for startups to see who is around and create a community.
@bullcity - i'm doing a piece on start-ups at http://1x57.com - would you mind if I contact u about that site?
my info is steve [at] 1x57.com
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#23Slightly offtopic - Anyone in DC looking for a programming job? It's at a company I used to work at. Email me.
Specifics? I'm a Web Dev, systems? Not so much.
That might work. Shoot me an email and I'll fill you in.
It's basically creating and maintaining internal applications for a small-medium sized company. Some examples of the type of work are automating product ordering, automating sales lead generation, automating billing, and lots of web development too.
It's mostly in Python right now, but they just want a good person and are OK if he/she learns Python on the job.
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#24This is great. We created a similar site earlier this year for Durham, NC startups at http://downtowndurhamstartups.com I think it's helpful in these areas for startups to see who is around and create a community.
You guys should put a link to http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Hackers-Founders/ on downtowndurhamstartups.com! :-)
Also, note that RTP Hackers & Founders has a meeting coming up this Friday in Raleigh.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Careful of the golden handcuffs though. Like it or not, many of the government contractors are in pretty stable multi-year contracts and are making north of 100-150k. Unless they have their finances in excellent condition, many of them can't afford to join a startup part time. Though almost everyone is looking for side projects and something interesting to do in their spare time, so recruiting someone for 10-20 hrs/w…
This might be changing... The Secretary of Defense announced a few months ago that he wants to cut contractors by 10 percent a year for 3 years: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/08/th...
Even if that does happen, all it means is that you can hire the bottom 30 percent
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#26Nice :) We are part DC-based and part CA-based and I will definetely get more involved...
thanks,
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#27I can't upvote this enough.
I've been really struggling to find something for me in the DC area. I spent a few years at a contractor job... after trying, and failing to launch my own startup, I'm back with another contractor, and it just isn't for me.
I've been struggling with the desire to stay with family and my SO in the area, and the apparent need to move to CA if I really want to be part of the startup community. It's a really tough decision I've been trying to avoid making. I've tried looking on "conventional" job boards like Monster and on more niche ones like 37signals, and only got a few hits, none of which worked out.
Anything that gets me in touch with more startups, especially ones that are hiring, is gold.
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#28I can't upvote this enough. I've been really struggling to find something for me in the DC area. I spent a few years at a contractor job... after trying, and failing to launch my own startup, I'm back with another contractor, and it just isn't for me. I've been struggling with the desire to stay with family and my SO in the area, and the apparent need to move to CA if I really want to be part of the startup community…
What type of development do you do? We're looking for strong systems developers.
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#29I can't upvote this enough. I've been really struggling to find something for me in the DC area. I spent a few years at a contractor job... after trying, and failing to launch my own startup, I'm back with another contractor, and it just isn't for me. I've been struggling with the desire to stay with family and my SO in the area, and the apparent need to move to CA if I really want to be part of the startup community…
What type of development do you do? We're looking for strong systems developers.
Primarily do rails and ruby development. In working on my failed startup, I wound up doing a lot of stuff on some level, from backend ruby stuff where I did nearly all of the work, to JS on the front end (and lots in between). My SO helped me a lot on the front end with CSS, graphics, layout, and general design... and is in about the same job situation as me.
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#30Great site! Thanks for putting it together. It's great to have one common site for all of this information.
Something I've been looking for but didn't see either on the site or the wiki was a list of local legal/accounting resources for startups. Can anyone recommend good DC people/firms that are familiar with the tech scene and can help with things like incorporating, trademark/IP issues, etc.?