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Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early

SoCal CTO

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. And I use it all the time now when I get the kind of message that I received: I'm looking for a web developer to continue work on my website.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media.

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

Although software startups continue to be founded to exploit vertical markets, few of them now compete with legacy, “boxed” software. Rather, the software companies I’ve invested in, such as JazzHR , TaxJar and SimpleLegal , compete with Web 1.0

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. Accounting?

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