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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

While working in a big world-known company, our early process around translation management in software localization consisted of Google Sheets usage. It was confusing to track the updates in Google Sheets, so one of our top managers dedicated 1 day per week to manage translations for software localization. Photo Credit: Jack Miller.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Go Beyond the Code There are many super hackers out there (especially in the Bay Area). Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

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Choosing Between Mobile and Native Apps One of the resounding themes for mobile software developers in 2011 is the debate between building a native app or building a mobile web app. Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search. Richard Rabins Co-Chairman Alpha Software, Inc.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. There are a number of VC firms that had extraordinary success in enterprise software, telecom equipment, and semiconductors in the 1990s.

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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. All VCs make decisions by drawing on the data we have at hand, information gleaned through our diligence process, and our own experience and judgement. .” Our job as VCs is to source, select, and win the best investment opportunities.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

They take months to do their due diligence, and then wonder if investing in a start is the right thing to do…you’re lucky to be surrounded by VC”s who get it, as opposed to Canadian VC’s who twiddle their thumbs more often than not, unless you’ve developed some new server load balancing platform or a microchip.