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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies.

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Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

In the early 2000s, digital design and development freelancers were sort after – I was fresh out of University (having completed a degree in Media Arts) and was hungry for work. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. In that time, I've discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. The startup scene is relatively young, however, which is partly due to some pretty fundamental cultural barriers.

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A Micropreneur Blueprint: How to Stay Solo, Bleed Passion, and.

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. It wasn’t until the past decade that a designer or developer could leave the safety of a salaried position in pursuit of a career as a solo entrepreneur. July 13th, 2010 | Uncategorized Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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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? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. Really hard.