ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. As well, Yahoo didn’t care to build a robust search engine feature on its platform. Application Development Activity. Blinded by its advertising revenue , Yahoo let customer experience take a backseat.

Software Review 190

Software Review Application Development Technical Review Bankruptcy 190

Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads).

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Developer Algorithm Search Web 31

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. Think of all the canonical examples where an entrepreneur added “AND” to classic computer science and engineering.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. Think of all the canonical examples where an entrepreneur added “AND” to classic computer science and engineering.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105