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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

The build-it-yourself era is giving way to prebuilt software that makes it possible to bring advanced capabilities “in-house” almost instantly and get to market quicker. This is the model we see at software companies that are doing exceptionally well. The risk versus reward equation points to Levittown software.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. HBS Angels will likely execute this in 2012.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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

blog.expensify.com

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else.

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