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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. I understand his frustration. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. This methodology improved on waterfall by building software iteratively and involving the customer. Microsoft Windows 3.0). But it lacked a framework for testing all commercialization hypotheses outside of the building.

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Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs?

Software By Rob

The masses have grown weary of the blog “fad” just as they grew weary of the “email” fad in the late 90s, the “internet” fad in 2000, MySpace and Friendster in 2007/2008, and how they’ll grow tired of the Facebook and Twitter fads in 2010 and move on to something else. And that’s why now is a fantastic time to start a blog.

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

Software By Rob

How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? Job seekers can get notified when a new posting is added which meets their search criteria such as location, technology, role, investor, VC etc. via 8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career | Software by Rob. [.] #8 The average U.S. at 7:01 am [.]

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies. As a developer I’ve probably had contact with 300 open source projects, components, and applications.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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Marketing is Design: Three Words that Increased My E-commerce.

Software By Rob

Until a few weeks ago I owned one of the top ranking sites on Google for the search term “beach towels.&# As a software developer I want things in neat little boxes. at 4:12 pm Loved this post; so true, and so often overlooked by software developers. Traffic was from organic search (primarily Google).

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