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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

Software was expensive. As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. ” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. .”

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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. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? NoSQL came from the web, but it willl find a natural home in the enterprise.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? NoSQL came from the web, but it willl find a natural home in the enterprise.

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Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs?

Software By Rob

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. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. At first weexpected our customers to be Web consultants. Want to start a startup?

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Pluggio is a Freemium Twitter web app created by Justin Vincent. About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. 13 Justin Pirie on 08.18.10