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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

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In a recent blog post , he argues that it’s not just costs that are at historic lows. ” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. You name it.”

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I started blogging because Brad Feld blogged. It turned into this blog. It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change.

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

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Joel of Fog Creek says: “We didn’t start with a particular product in mind: our goal was simply to build the kind of software company where we would want to work, one in which programmers and software developers are the stars and everything else serves only to make them productive and happy.&# Wait, did I miss fame?