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Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early

SoCal CTO

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. And I use it all the time now when I get the kind of message that I received: I'm looking for a web developer to continue work on my website. The funds have been used up on the existing development.

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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

When International Technological University’s CTO Kranthi Lammatha was a boy in the Indian farming village of Kasipuram, he would walk nine miles to get to school every day and another nine miles to get back home in the evening. EMS also allows faculty to interact with students, and integrates curriculum development with class content.

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

ReadWriteStart

When we launched two years ago, for example, the whole development team was based in India. Plus, with India being 2.5 After six months, I was able to sign up a local CTO to help build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that enabled me to secure funding. We closed the Argentinian office, bringing one developers to Singapore.

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How the Internet of Things is impacting New Zealand businesses

NZ Entrepreneur

“The Internet of Things is about taking ordinary objects/machinery or things that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, and then connecting them to the internet,” explains Jourdan Templeton, a Chief Technology Officer from Aware Group. “We We do this for two reasons. Ways IoT has made a big impact in NZ.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Technology. Affordable Technology. Agile Development. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. 3: PaaS Users : Professional Developers. 5: App Services Users : Citizen Developers. Sales Activity Management. B2B Sales Process. Innovation.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.