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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. The following is a guest article by Dave Rodenbaugh of Lessons of Failure.

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