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The big debate is not iPhone v. BlackBerry or Android. The big debate is single-touch interface v. multi-touch interface. We could be witnessing history in the making. The final fight is in software.
In the west we often assume that buildings schools in poorer nations is the catalyst to learning. Kristy's time in Northern Ghana has taught her otherwise, and she talks about the many economic and cultural obstacles standing in the way of broader education.
Big press release coming out? You are expecting internet traffic volumes to double. Are you ready? If you have deployed with Amazon EC2 you are.
Kristy Minor is an environmental engineer graduate working in Ghana as part of an Engineers Without Borders initiative. In the first of many blog entries she will share on Red Canary, Kristy talks about the geographic challenges faced by the local population.
Alyssa Dvers explains why software companies (even young ones) need a product manager. From dispelling naivety to disseminating customer data, Alyssa argues that a PMs job is never done, and has never been more important to lasting success.
The founders of three successful technology companies shoot from the hip about how Agile affects software development, and discuss both its potential and immediate influence on other business practices.
Many employers complain about the low volume and poor quality of their sales applicants, says Lee Salz, but at the same time create job ads that don't sell the position, opting for vanilla job 'descriptions' over job 'advertisements'. Referencing the psychology of food retailers, he goes on to identify effective ways of reaching quality passive candidates.
"Successful leaders—and, therefore, successful founders—invest the time to clearly identify, prioritize, and communicate key goals. They then measure their success by real progress against those desired outcomes." This piece comes by way of FoundRead, a blog-style publication that runs under the umbrella of respected technology guru Om Malik.
This post was borrowed from Coaching Programmers, an excellent blog by Bruce Taylor (author of Working with Programmers) that sadly hasn’t been updated recently. "Imagine Rambo in Birkenstock sandals and you’ll have a good image of the hero programmer."
Savvica founder and startup veteran John Philip Green talks about the challenges of hiring (and finding) Ruby developers, and presents his qualifiers for strong candidates.
A veteran software tester takes a comprehensive look at the intricacies and ambiguities of evaluating testers, and shares his thoughts on testing approaches, certifications, hiring challenges and much more. (available as PDF).
Chris Herbert suggests that every dollar spent on marketing should create ten dollars in sales. How? By marrying sales opportunities to marketing and measuring the results.
Technology sales veteran Gerry Gabon tells a story about slugging it out in the trenches, and shares some essential sales strategies along the way. Imagine this situation: a VP of Sales says “go to every trade show and collect every business card. You now own these accounts”
"No one (except for your mother) is going to give you money just because they want to see you succeed," says Roy Pereira, as he writes on startup funding strategies.
Through blogs and social networking sites, web 2.0 has changed the way we connect. Maggie Fox says that we no longer communicate based on where we live, but based on what we're interested in.
Andy Singleton of Assembla discusses his inspiration and approach to hiring top developers. Andy Singleton, President of Assembla, talks about how he applies lessons and examples from the book 'Blink' to filter out his bias when it comes to hiring top developers.
Tim Tang wonders why there is so little innovation in revenue models for 2.0 entities - hinting that M&A removes the profit incentive. Pre-bubble burst, it’s about no profit, all revenue. Post-bubble burst, it’s no profit, no revenue – but all value to the end user – something not remotely recognized by GAAP.
Charles Plant of Q1 Capital Partners talks about the barriers facing Canadian technology companies. “Right now, we are starving our emerging companies for capital.”