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Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies

Both Sides of the Table

We talked about why customers were slow to adopt (cloud computing was really early and most people had security concerns), we talked about how hard it was to raise money (2002/03), we talked about some of the tech challenges we were facing (AJAX didn’t exist yet, browsers were really bad) and, of course, we talked about other competition.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I just want an AJAX toolkit that i can easily create browser based UIs. But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. ASP.NET WebForms from 2002 is not the same as “ NET” in 2011.

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