Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I thought I’d pay it forward. It turned into this blog. Here’s a personal story.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. It plateaued at around $2 million in revenue before we sold it in 1993. We were fraternity brothers and close friends and opened our first office directly across the street from our fraternity chapter house in Cambridge.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 1993 vs 2013 pic.twitter.com/P5m3MIsUjk. Breaking Design Principles on Purpose | Design Shack – crowdspring.co/1gkHTPn. 40 High Quality And Free Minimalistic Icon Sets – crowdspring.co/1gkGdoX.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

When a couple of Chicago software developers working on Apartments.com's lookup searches got tired of phoning restaurants to order takeout, it dawned on them: Why isn't there a one-stop shop for food delivery? In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. It plateaued at around $2 million in revenue before we sold it in 1993. We were fraternity brothers and close friends and opened our first office directly across the street from our fraternity chapter house in Cambridge.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things.

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