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San Antonio-based Assembla Buys MyGet

SiliconHills

Assembla, a software development platform based in San Antonio, has announced plans to acquire MyGet, a software management company, based in Belgium. Assembla, founded in 2005 and acquired by Scaleworks in 2016, is a software as a service company that sells a platform that allows coders […].

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

I’ve been very blessed to have had a 22-year career at Intuit where I held various product roles from software developer on QuickBooks for DOS to offering leader on QuickBooks Connected Services. With this in mind, we started Intuit’s Unstructured Time program in 2005, where employees could spend 10% working on their own projects.

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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. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Ryan quickly raised about $400k of friends and family money. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Google Summer of Code 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Since 2005, Google has led a wonderful open source program called Summer of Code. The goal of that program is to promote open source software development. Google has run this program every year since 2005, and the results are stunning.

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Selecting An Agile Coach

SVPG

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. Commercial product companies have some critical and different roles from other types of software. I should have written this article many years ago. See [link] 2.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In million jobs. Who needs freelancers?

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Finding Opportunity "On the Job"

The Entrepreneurial Mind

With a demonstrated market need and limited competition, Roland partnered with a custom software developer to co-found Abenity Inc. to offer employee discount management to companies. The team at Abenity has listened to customers and adapted its business model along the way since the company launched in 2005.