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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. The irony of Bray’s argument is of course that Android – the part of Google that pays his salary, is also Java-based (well, pending the outcome of the Oracle suit anyway ) and extremely innovative.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. The irony of Bray’s argument is of course that Android – the part of Google that pays his salary, is also Java-based (well, pending the outcome of the Oracle suit anyway ) and extremely innovative.

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30 Entrepreneurs Discuss Whether or Not There Will Be More Entrepreneurs in the Future

Hearpreneur

Aside from many young people wanting to break away from salaried jobs, it's probably because it's now becoming easier to be an entrepreneur. As early as the next decade, almost every individual will be able to associate their talents & work offerings with potential business value rather than just a fixed salary.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My first business, a digital agency called MPSWORKS, came about purely based on demand for digital services and to generally help make a difference for small businesses across the UK by creating strong work that would help them prosper. Even though I had a job and earned a decent salary, I was spinning my wheels just to pay my bills.

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Founder Interview: Jim Elliott – Volunteer to NonProfit Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

At first, I wondered if leaving a successful media career to start a nonprofit where I would not draw a salary was a wise decision. Jim: My media background helped tremendously in getting press, which we did not pursue until 2004. We didn’t want to create more demand than we could handle. What were the first hurdles?

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The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse

This is going to be BIG.

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? That would actually be pretty good for the talent market--it would bring salaries back down to normal. There are lots of those around.

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Is the bar lower for a tech IPO?

BeyondVC

According to the S-1 filing: Salary.com is a leading provider of on-demand compensation management solutions. During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 million for 2004, $1.9 million, $0.9 million and $1.8 million, respectively, and used $0.7 million for 2005, $3.0

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