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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

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Blogging is the new resume: Why less is not always more

The Next Web

These manufactured documents might help weed you out from the obvious “hell no” candidates, but do a poor job of communicating your capabilities. GitHub can be a fantastic resume for software developers. The open platform showcases candidates’ creations, free to inspect and critique. Can we all agree resumes are crummy?

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Open: most importantly, Lightning is an open, permissionless network. As Chris Dixon documents in his seminal essay on Why Decentralization Matters , open networks always ultimately win. Use Case II: Decentralized Data Network (Web 3) . Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

I’ll discuss what skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation youll need, and much more. What is bootstrapping?