thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Fast forward to 1997. It never ends, because technology changes fast. Game-changing technologies become affordable (cloud computing, SSDs, insane amounts of memory). If you are a software developer, try to work for a while on a web-scale problem. I started coding in the 80s. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C.

Developer 31

Developer Algorithm Search Web 31

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

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.

Java 66

Java Product Software Developers Software Development 66