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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Many more companies have realized they need to become software companies; otherwise, they risk becoming the Nokia or Blackberry of yesteryear. Ditto for Apple.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. That’s part of the magic of Silicon Valley.”. The focus of our first segment with Eric was, “What is the Lean Startup” and how did it start? Taking My Class.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: January 16th – 22nd

Scott Edward Walker

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd zLmdx7 “We pitched investors 348 times before getting a ‘yes’ from Walden Venture Capital in March 2004.” If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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But, somehow, Silicon Valley didnt get the memo. Psychophysics in Cyberia , Work Less Institute of Technology, November 18, 2004. Throughout the 30s, 40s, and 50s, these studies were apparently conducted by the hundreds; and by the 1960s, the benefits of the 40-hour week were accepted almost beyond question in corporate America.