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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. What did he know? He was tech.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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I never built Google. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. To get reputation, you answer questions and they’re peer reviewed.