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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Eventually, Juno provided free access to browse the internet in addition to sending email. The experience was paid for by placing ads at the bottom of your internet browser.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects. Ask developers if they’ve been involved with a previous web startup and what their role was in the startup.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Likewise, BlackBerry and HP/Palm are also using WebKit and Microsoft is going to release a mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7. It also means that developers can feel free to use those technologies when creating their applications and not have to worry that the device itself won’t support a particular function.

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

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Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.