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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?”

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. At the heart of the matter is scarcity of resources.

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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

The companies that ‘rent’ these products on a SaaS basis enjoy the highest standard in software without the costs, risks and tech quandaries of in-house development. This Levittown model is the future of payments software. The build-it-yourself era of payment software development is coming to a close and for good reason. “We

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders.