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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

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Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. You name it.” ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.”

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Inside The New Microsoft Office App Store: One Developer’s Story

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What makes Gliffy’s story especially interesting is that Microsoft invited the company to participate – even though Gliffy competes with Microsoft’s own Visio software. ‘We were thinking, is there any other software package that is larger, worldwide? An Icon Is Worth A Thousand Downloads.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

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The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). When outsourcing, remember that lawyers are like VCs…it matters less who’s name is on the front door than who you work with.

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

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Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. Name one widely acclaimed or groundbreaking technology or technique to come out of the.NET realm in the past 5 years?

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