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Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

percent in 1998 to 7.7 While Indian developers had previously found themselves at the bottom of the pecking order, they are now often the top choice for software roles. Therefore, software does not need to be bought at one expensive price, but rather rented in affordable monthly installments reducing the friction to use SaaS.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. I have the purchase history to prove it.

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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. Multiple tools and technology available can enable innovation in organizations, no-code software development being a pioneer in them. Application Development Activity.

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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. If you are a software developer, try to work for a while on a web-scale problem. It’s not even illegal, that will come later. A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. So what was 2look4? A few things.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

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. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.