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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer. Web Developer. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Platform Software Developer. Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash). Software Cloud Engineer III. Front-End Engineer.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Answer: All self-taught.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

What would have happened if, before Netflix had become established, one of the major rental store chains or perhaps a coalition of big movie studios had realised the potential of those new distribution models and the danger to the existing happy cash generators, and consequently thrown $100,000,000 into getting their own service off the ground?

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? This effort – Apple software development and third-party app development – feels understaffed and underfunded. It took three years to go from ResearchKit 1.0 Outside the U.S., Lessons Learned.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Other than a second-rate musician, “Cisco” is descriptive of nothing, offering no hint as to the company’s initial core competency in router design and development. At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. Expertcity was a great name for that business.

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