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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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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

And it made me come to a new realization: Every early-stage web/mobile/online startup should have at least one technical advisor, probably two. I quite often get a call where a founder raised $150K of initial money and has spend $120K on in-house or outsourced development and the software is 90% done. Strategic Technical Advisor.

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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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Sponsor Post: Southern California technology firms are hiring!

socalTECH

Web Application Developer , Irvine, GrowMetrix. Web Developer , Calabasas, lynda.com, Inc. Web UX Designer , Carpinteria, lynda.com, inc. Senior Web Developer Software Engineer , Santa Monica, Cars.com. Director of Research & Analytics , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group.

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Ben McCann

Tech.Co

I created and launched Realtime Google Analytics together with three other software engineers. In high school, I created a guitar tablature site, which received over 1 million page views per month, and I’ve been addicted to the web ever since.

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SPONSOR POST: Find jobs at socalTECH.com

socalTECH

Senior Web Developer , Malibu Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Software Engineer , West LA, Shopzilla. Platform Senior Software Engineer , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. IT Infrastructure/Technical Services Manager , Malibu, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.