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20 years working on the same software product

Successful Software

I released version 1 of my table seating planning software , PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. It’s success is due to a lot of hard work, and a certain amount of dumb luck. I looked around for some software to help me. There were a couple of software packages, but I wasn’t impressed. 20 years ago this month.

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No-code business intelligence service y42 raises $2.9M seed round

TechCrunch

. “We’re taking the best of breed open-source software. “We’re extremely UX obsessed and I would describe us as no-code/low-code BI tool — but with the power of an enterprise-level data stack and the simplicity of Google Sheets.”

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How Much is Poor Quality Software Costing You?

OverOps

Earlier this month, Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board member of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) joined our VP of Solution Engineering Eric Mizell for a webinar examining the cost of poor quality software. Herb’s CISQ report estimates that, in 2018, poor quality software cost organizations $2.8 trillion in the U.S.

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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

TechCrunch

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. How have you been finding clients?

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

TechCrunch

The closure came just three years after it launched with the goal to build software for startups to navigate fundraising, hiring, acquisition deals and collaboration with their legal team. HubHaus (2016-2020). The Outline (2016-2020). Essential (2017-2020). Total Raised: $330 million. Image Credits: Darrell Etherington.

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Data wants to disrupt your deal flow (again)

TechCrunch

No further due diligence? As history often reminds us , due diligence matters from a human perspective — and vetting a founder beyond their ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. “Our approach? This is our data set, let’s see if we can put money into them,” he said. No problem.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer. No code became a buzzword. I dont buy it. It is not the end of programming.