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Recruiting Software Developers By Showing Up With Pizza

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Once again we are in a zone where hiring software developers is incredibly challenging. Last night I was at Angel Boot Camp in Boston. It was a dinner for about 50 angel investors – a mix of experienced ones and new ones – organized by Jon Pierce. He had a bunch of great ideas, but one stood out.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

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Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

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Seeing the reaction to Bilski, what has struck me is how surprised and disappointed some people are with the weak will of the Supreme Court to act to limit the damage that software patents are causing, and will keep causing, to innovation in the U.S. Software innovation continues, by the way, in spite of the patent system, not because of it.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

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His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). I’ve worked closely with Ari for a while and love his candor.

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Why I Recommend Writing For At Least An Hour A Day

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In the late 1980s, I started my first company, Feld Technologies, which wrote custom software for companies. So I started writing memos about how the computers and the software they were buying would solve their business problems. It’s how I problem solve. And it’s crucial to my continued learning and growth.

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Now That’s How You Do An Angel Pitch Event

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Jason Calacanis came up with a great format when he created Open Angel Forum and David Cohen has done an awesome job of hosting and coordinating the two Boulder events. 20 qualified angel investors – to qualify you must be active making angel investments (at least three in the past year). The format is ideal.

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The Long and Winding Road to Rock Band 4

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You can buy just the Rock Band 4 software (if you have your old instruments) or, if you are like me and you’ve given your instruments away, you can buy a new full bundle of everything. And, in case you missed it, Spark Capital joined us an investor last week with a few other long time friends in a $15 million round.