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Building A Reputation As A Trustworthy Software Developer

The Startup Magazine

A software developer can struggle to establish a good name and reputation initially. There are many mistakes to be made at the start, and many software users do not hesitate to voice their displeasure if they encounter difficulties. Curate Developer Profiles. Things can change with software too. Don’t Overpromise.

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. Organizational and Innovation Theater. are obstacles for innovation.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day.

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The Air Force Academy Gets Lean

Steve Blank

And I couldn’t have been put in a better place: testing the Air Force’s newest network security acquisitions. We were modernizing datacenters, buying vulnerability-scanning software, and adding intrusion detection appliances – all things typical of anyone running an enterprise-scale network. Francis Hospital.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We are heavy users of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 5) Due diligence.

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

Nuclear Weapons Laboratories which used supercompurters to run their hydrodynamics codes to simulate what went on in the first microseconds in a nuclear weapon and the National Security Agency (with Cray putting in a special population count hardware instruction) used to facilitate decryption of codes.