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Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?

Feld Thoughts

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. It plateaued at around $2 million in revenue before we sold it in 1993. We were fraternity brothers and close friends and opened our first office directly across the street from our fraternity chapter house in Cambridge.

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Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?

Feld Thoughts

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. It plateaued at around $2 million in revenue before we sold it in 1993. We were fraternity brothers and close friends and opened our first office directly across the street from our fraternity chapter house in Cambridge.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

When a couple of Chicago software developers working on Apartments.com's lookup searches got tired of phoning restaurants to order takeout, it dawned on them: Why isn't there a one-stop shop for food delivery? In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time.

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Twitter Link Roundup #205 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 1993 vs 2013 pic.twitter.com/P5m3MIsUjk. Breaking Design Principles on Purpose | Design Shack – crowdspring.co/1gkHTPn. 40 High Quality And Free Minimalistic Icon Sets – crowdspring.co/1gkGdoX.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I thought I’d pay it forward. It turned into this blog. Here’s a personal story.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things.