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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. . 20% initial ownership.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

Endianness” refers to the byte order of data stored in external memory. The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really. I was just in marketing.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. This article is a great anchor for my future references. As a web designer, this is something that I need to reference to and want to learn more about.

Mobile 101
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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What better name for a search firm (headhunter) than one that references what we do. 4- Description of our software. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. After college, I spent years working in software engineering and data analysis incorporate, but I was never satisfied.

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

blog.expensify.com

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). The title is CEO Friday and you referred to David as a recruiter? It’s like arguing against vertical software. March 26, 2011 at 4:47 am.

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