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Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction. So Now What for Tech?

View from Seed

Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. . Even in a sustained downturn, tech is likely to be a driving force of economic productivity improvements rather than the proximate cause of recession (as in 2001).

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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. It is a different story for traditional manufacturers, which have steep fixed and variable costs.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. The origins of WebInno are humble. Fast-forward to today and the landscape is different.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. All manual operations.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

And I was blessed to receive many awards for our product too. I started my business, Eco-Bags Products in 1989 for three key reasons. Thanks to Sharon Rowe, Eco-Bags Products ! #4- I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. So Snuggwugg was invented. There are valleys and a lot of ditches.

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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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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D.