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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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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

The develop in-house side would point to the existing investment in staff talent. If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application? There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

But outside of these cities, China’s mobile market is made up of millions of less affluent consumers who use low-cost Android phones and often don’t have access to high-bandwidth mobile connectivity. Technology collaborations along the lines of the Qualcomm-Tudou partnership are another example of creative US-China partnerships.

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The Last Coder

This is going to be BIG.

After all, lots of the code required to build web services are now available off the open source shelf--and many of the processes formally asked of the code are being worked into the language itself, like with Ruby on Rails. The developer months it takes to get a web service up and running has exponentially decreased over the past decade.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Meanwhile startups like Zebedee are creating software development kits (SDKs) for the long tail of indie game developers to integrate lightning payments into their games as well. . Use Case II: Decentralized Data Network (Web 3) . account-based identity model to the Web 3.0 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. And it’s that Information is everywhere.

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Why Video Marketing is Underrated (and How to Use it to Your Advantage)

Duct Tape Marketing

With the proliferation of mobile devices as our primary means of Internet access , and bandwidth and speeds increasing with fiber-optic Internet , it’s prime time for video. Takeaway : Video content is also easy to share via social networks, and software developers have prioritized video integration in site creation.

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