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

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Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” Hardware was expensive. You name it.”

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Inside The New Microsoft Office App Store: One Developer’s Story

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What makes Gliffy’s story especially interesting is that Microsoft invited the company to participate – even though Gliffy competes with Microsoft’s own Visio software. ‘We were thinking, is there any other software package that is larger, worldwide? An Icon Is Worth A Thousand Downloads.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

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The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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