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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Ditto for Apple. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

In the early 2000s, digital design and development freelancers were sort after – I was fresh out of University (having completed a degree in Media Arts) and was hungry for work. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. #2- Just looked at the paper I was reading. Photo Credit: Scott Harris. Photo Credit: Carl Potak.

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A Micropreneur Blueprint: How to Stay Solo, Bleed Passion, and.

Software By Rob

It wasn’t until the past decade that a designer or developer could leave the safety of a salaried position in pursuit of a career as a solo entrepreneur. Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004. You don’t even need to register.

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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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Hazards of Hiring

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The Business of Software. Software Development. 2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. Sometimes all our indicators are positive, but the employee just doesnt work out. About Eric.

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