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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

As the virus spread and the world went into a state of work from home, the media questioned whether “New York is dead.” I love being in New York City because I’m friends with an aerialist, social workers, doulas, cooks, teachers, actors, professional triathletes, bankers, lawyers, emergency service workers and sure, software developers, too.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. Thanks to Alistair Dodds, Smoking Chili Media ! #11- 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. #11- 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. Photo Credit: Carl Potak. That name was and is, StartupDevKit.

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

Software By Rob

Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004. From their FAQ: ChangeThis is a new kind of media. And unlike almost every other form of media, it reaches people through community. It’s calm and thoughtful and direct and transparent.

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Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs?

Software By Rob

Yes, Twitter and Facebook are the darlings of the media for the time being, and it seems no one gives a rip about blogs anymore. It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. 4 John Evans on 10.28.09

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. It also provides support and guidance well beyond that phase.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.