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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

The companies that ‘rent’ these products on a SaaS basis enjoy the highest standard in software without the costs, risks and tech quandaries of in-house development. This Levittown model is the future of payments software. The build-it-yourself era of payment software development is coming to a close and for good reason. “We

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right.

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