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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

In an interview with First Round Capital, Dropbox’s Vice President of Product and Design, Todd Jackson, observed : “The PM role needs to be purposely flexible, almost by design. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business. You may have heard the quote: ‘The PM is the CEO of their product.’

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. It was as though I figured out what I should be doing with the experience I was so recently afforded because I think that designing my own life, but also getting to figure out. What was it like?

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

What you find is that ongoing development, as with any legacy system, is much slower than green field development. You’re now tied to legacy code and design decisions, and you soon realize this isn’t what you signed up for when you had that brilliant flash of insight that people need web-based help locating their keys.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In addition, the original use for “grahm” in Greek meant “something written”, and can also be used to describe the general sense of “sending a message”, which describes how companies use the software to communicate with one another. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. Thanks to Hani Abdou, Tradogram ! #5-

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

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. All it needs is multi methods and pattern matching and it would be the coolest language ever.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

What I do like is the coming up with the idea and mapping out the development part. 2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. mockingbird?