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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

I’ve been very blessed to have had a 22-year career at Intuit where I held various product roles from software developer on QuickBooks for DOS to offering leader on QuickBooks Connected Services. When I left Intuit in 2015, I was VP of Innovation and led Intuit Labs, Intuit’s internal incubator.

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Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. Many are immersive and include internships. A few are longer than 12 weeks. I’m a big fan of coding schools.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Thanks to its partnership with the China Software Developer Network (CSDN), the largest developer community in China, Appcelerator is building the next generation mobile platform for China’s mobile market.

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My Top 10 for 2018

Start Up Blog

This is the arrival of software platforms that allow anyone with basic computer literacy to develop software or apps without any coding expertise. Put simply, if you can read, you’re about to become a software developer too. An important evolution for the masses where software is eating everything.

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Create a Business Plan for Fewer Hassles and Faster Growth

Up and Running

There’s a famous scene in the cult-classic 1999 movie “ Office Space “ where the main character, Peter, is confronted by his boss, Bill. Writing a business plan can help make sure Office Space doesn’t feel relatable [ source ].

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Operating a business in the age of the ‘brand experience’

The Next Web

The preeminent philosophy of these times came to be embodied in a software development term known as “user experience”—what a customer experiences in electronic formats. In 1999 or so, a third player entered the scene when Google launched its minimalist Web experience.