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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. Since we had gotten out of the software business when we came out of Chapter 11 , and our sales channel didn’t know what to do with software, we licensed ReelTime to Adobe.

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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. Engineers are expensive and have better things to do than read resumes all day.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Standout startups like Stripe, InVision, and Github exploit a competitive edge every startup should leverage. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. In the race to build a great software product, engineering talent is oxygen. Don’t participate.