A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 10 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. — This is due to the very definition of “average” — you’ll spend half your time before the half-way point, and half after.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Hence, car sharing software came into existence. With the advent of software solutions for carpooling, vehicle sharing transforms into a coordinated and monitored system, wherein every participant in the process reaps benefits. This process is regulated by specialised car sharing software. What is car sharing?
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. Let’s dive into these stories.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Today, Oracle has 40,000 workers in the United States and 66,000 abroad.
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