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7 Technology Entrepreneur Examples You Should Emulate

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some recognizable entrepreneurial examples I like, just from the technology space: Driven by an epic ambition. Peter Andrews and Fiona Wood, in their classic book “ Überpreneurs ” have profiled 36 leading candidates for this category, to extract a set of common characteristics. Innovative yet pragmatic.

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Esri Offers Up Free GIS Software For COVID-19 Response

socalTECH

Redland-based mapping and GIS software developer Esri says it will offer up its software for free to public and private sector organizations fighting the COVID-19 disease pandemic. According to Esri, it has created a template for public health agencies and other organizations, which it is offering up for no cost for six months.

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

Software terminology is stubbornly not following a similar evolution. It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”.

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reqallable's Software Lets Google Glass Users Read, Handle Email Automatically

socalTECH

The new software is the first step of Machiraju''s vision for smart devices which automatically help people perform tasks, and anticipate what users need. According to reQall, its context aware app intelligently identifies critical information in email, and allows Google Glass wearers to reply to email and act on that information.

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LA Software Craftsmanship UnConference Event [ LOS ANGELES ]

Tech.Co

“We are pleased to invite you to attend LA Software Craftsmanship’s unConference event! The topics will be related to managing an engineering culture, dealing with current software trends and models, and creating a tightly knit LA tech community. What is an unConference? Why attend?

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Are you or your business “time bankrupt?”

Berkonomics

I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. Why use this term? The customer pays for all or at least 90% of the bill, perhaps holding back a retainer awaiting completion.

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Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything

SoCal CTO

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Who are the customers?