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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. The remaining 10%, takes the other 90% of the time.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. Included in our recent investments in this category are both Dunwello (rethinking how employee feedback and reviews are delivered) and a stealthy investment in NYC empowering software engineers. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

The benefit comes from a more personalized customer journey made possible by analyzing internal data (loyalty programs, site activity, CRM data) to build a portrait of the customers that is supportive of the mobile app or custom software system being used.

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The Funding Gap

Gust

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. The resources required to start a company vary significantly , depending on the type of company and growth rate anticipated by the entrepreneur. ANNUAL US $$$. 50 billion.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Color said that it had six patents pending at the time of its funding, including its ‘elastic’ social. graph and patents related to GPS location and battery saving.

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Everything You Need To Know About R&D Tax Credits 

The Startup Magazine

It is surprising though that not many people or business owners know about these R&D tax credits as a valuable resource, some people believed that R&D would refer to those working only in laboratories or with chemicals, computers, and machines. Technology Accelerator.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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