YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
The good news for startups and other businesses with limited funds (or, who have financially savvy owners) is that you don’t (necessarily) need to hire an expensive team of software developers to create an app. It’s hard enough to learn how to fund a business without worrying about mobile app development costs. Just build it.
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www.joelonsoftware.com
MARCH 24, 2010
Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.
Scalable Startup
MAY 29, 2012
Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. tomnora.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 16, 2013
We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. I learned that software engineers?—?or or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 5, 2018
I didn’t set out to write an inventory management software package from scratch. It really started as an in-house software solution to address the stock woes that I had with my custom t-shirt printing business. It’s about setting up my software development centre from scratch in Vietnam.
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