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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Three Counterintuitive Ways To Build A Business That Lasts

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by Gareth Wilson, Head of Marketing at Fog Creek Software. Follow the leader in business and you’re almost certainly doomed to fail, especially when you consider that 90% of new companies go under. What’s more, just over three quarters of workers consider their ideas are poorly reviewed and analyzed.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. 2001 ; Tullis et al.,

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

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Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

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The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. Twenty-three year-olds in New York City running a small business. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent.

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The Complete Guide to Writing Product Descriptions That Convert

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This input-output pair matches our intuition about how software works. You can also do it, As Joanna Wiebe suggested, by scouring authentic customer reviews. In her KISSMetrics article , she explained how she pulled direct quotes from app reviews, like: “It was like having my own personal coach while I ran.”. “I

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