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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Connecting high-tech companies with highly trained and creative workers is important.

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. We followed that with an hour-long design review, including disclosure of product limitations. In December and January we met with ten customers in Korea, Japan, and China.

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3 Reasons to Benefit from the Coming Wave of 5G

The Startup Magazine

If you crave for details about the event, feel free to study up the reports or read detailed reviews, but now it’s not the main issue. Due to such a high-frequency, there is an increasing risk of data losses. Anyway, it’s expected that due to beamforming such troubles can be predicted and avoided in the 5G ecosystem.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. It happens whenever youre writing code on your own machine, or you have a team working on a branch. It also happens whenever you have code that is checked-in, but not yet deployed anywhere.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Dates are irrelevant.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Second, the debt note requires a fixed due date (or “maturity date”) for repayment of the total amount borrowed, plus interest. Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Turn Security Solutions Architect Turn Software Engineer, Data Turn Web Developer HelloFax Princ Mobile Software Engineer Advertising.com.

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