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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following. Would a demo or a 30 day trial give them enough of a feel for your app to be able to make the purchasing decision? They have something around 20 employees. They had some following, but then again so does this blog.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. Look what happened to Gawker. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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