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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. A few companies got bought before the whole Internet-bubble thing fell apart, and we almost managed to get bought (for around $500 million, but that’s another story for another day.).

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Twitter Link Roundup #91 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. PARC’s idea to reinvent the Internet sounds a bit confusing – [link]. – [link]. Constitution? – [link].

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Someone who has some background in software engineering and is qualified to write production code without much supervision, although they probably arent designing anything. This person will be expected to learn the software development lifecycle practices, methods, conventions, and standards of the computer industry.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. Sure, you can get away with less, but why? I wanted to work there. I wanted to study the languages.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet. How was that possible?