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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

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. The innovation sector differs from other industries in how it generates profits.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. Since we had gotten out of the software business when we came out of Chapter 11 , and our sales channel didn’t know what to do with software, we licensed ReelTime to Adobe.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." Toward that end, they have created two products. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Ditto for Apple. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. In my career I’ve seen many times the positive effect of a rich software development discipline, full life cycle, QE vs. The Getty, USC, The Grammys, MTV, and many more giant websites built in L.A.

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Is #NewYork the Next Startup Land of Oz?

Scalable Startup

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. These people abound in New York.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. I might have pursued a humanities education at a “ kumbaya college ” in California, but it’s only human to be at least a little bit selfish!