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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? But I don’t buy it.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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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]. UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – [link].

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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]. UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – [link].

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO. When to Use a Consulting CTO Time is of the essence in launching a startup company. Beware, however!