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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

Both Sides of the Table

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Americans watch 5.3

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

Both Sides of the Table

You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. He simply asserted, “the end of software” by putting up a logo with the word software and a red line through it. how can we create an angle that will interest readers?

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

Both Sides of the Table

I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. But I’m opposed to using data to “prove&# unprovable facts because I know that readers are often susceptible to this kind of data manipulation. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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The Customer May Not Always Be Right, But You Had Better Listen Just The Same

Tech Zulu Event

The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. The result is that I, the reader, had no interest in what was being sold in the ad yet I am a consumer in both verticals. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software. How does that happen?

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

socalTECH

Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am. We've got a nice API with ties to the enterprise class applications. We're software-as-a-service, all of its encrypted, and we're more secure than hospitals.

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