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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Today, Oracle has 40,000 workers in the United States and 66,000 abroad.

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My Top 10 for 2018

Start Up Blog

Podcast Series of the year: The Dream by Stitcher is a brilliant review of the history of Multi-Level Marketing (MLMs), pyramid selling and their total dodginess. Book of the Year: Winner Takes All by Anand Giridharadas. This book couldn’t come at a more important time in our history. Think Amway.

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Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs?

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. Check out my book Like this post?