article thumbnail

29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. Nobody was leveraging digital, e-commerce or mobile.

article thumbnail

Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Joe enthusiastically led Perot Jain’s support for Capital Factory’s Dallas $100,000 Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge. Prior to founding Precursor Ventures, Charles was a Partner at SoftTech VC, where he identified investment opportunities in mobile infrastructure, mobile applications, and marketplaces.

article thumbnail

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

Java 107