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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. Given Daniel’s expertise in search and information retrieval (blog: The Noisy Channel ), when Diego and I started discussing IndexTank, I introduced him to Daniel.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. Given Daniel’s expertise in search and information retrieval (blog: The Noisy Channel ), when Diego and I started discussing IndexTank, I introduced him to Daniel.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

Brad Feld (Brad is an advisor to K9) from the Foundry Group was instrumental in keeping the flame alive by posting about it on his blog ( The Founders Visa Movement ) in September. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug.

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Do You Know How Long It Took to Develop Word for Windows 1.0?

Diego Basch

Not many people know the story of what would become one of the most widely used software products ever. I learned about it from a case study for my Software Project Management class in 1997, what follows is my summary ( original here , or Google it). If only it were that simple. A much better argument was made (in 1986!)

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Why Do Alumni Donate to Their Alma Mater?

Diego Basch

When I first got there in 1997, I was taken aback by what I perceived as a display of wealth on campus. Going to CMU for my Masters in Software Engineering was one of the single best decisions I’ve ever made. With Carnegie Mellon, it’s a different story. They certainly don’t need my money.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

In his 1997 paper, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations , he found that: Laboratory studies show that mental work declines by 25% during each successive 24 hours of continuous wakefulness. IGDA Board Blog. He lives in Vancouver, BC. Copyright © 2005 Evan Robinson. Content Newsletter.