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Bob Cramblitt reports on Eric Sink’s talk from Business of Software 2007. To sign up for the BoS 2008, visit www.businessofsoftware.org Why did the marketing guy cross the road? To avoid the geek approaching him. Or vice versa. Why would any company want to have geeks involved in marketing? Or, conversely, why would any geek [...]
Bob Cramblitt reports on Bill Buxton’s talk from Business of Software 2007. To sign up for the BoS 2008, visit www.businessofsoftware.org Software product development is broken, and Bill Buxton is angry. Addressing the current process turns Buxton into a raging, slightly profane comedian with a very serious agenda. Buxton, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, [...]
Bob Cramblitt reports on Tim Lister’s talk from Business of Software 2007. To sign up for the BoS 2008, visit www.businessofsoftware.org
Bob Cramblitt reports on Guy Kawasaki’s talk from Business of Software 2007. To sign up for the BoS 2008, visit www.businessofsoftware.org Guy Kawasaki was part of the Mac team at Apple between 1983 and 1987, which he called
Yeah, the Red Sox had a great line-up for the World Series (maybe we should start calling it the "American Series"?), but check out this one for today’s Business of Software 2007 conference, listed by order of appearance. Guy KawasakiTim ListerBill BuxtonSoftware Idol winnersEric SinkBreakout sessions (take your dilemmas to the experts)Alberto SavoiaJoel Spolsky Stay [...]
Stay tuned tomorrow for ongoing, almost real-time posts from the 1st annual Business of Software conference. Wish you were here.
The idea for the Business of Software conference first popped into my head in March this year. We’ve now got 2 weeks to go until the conference starts. This is the second business I’ve started (I also co-founded Red Gate Software). Although the businesses are clearly very different, there are some interesting parallels. Here are [...]
If you want to hear Joel Spolsky, Rick Chapman, Dan Nunan, Jennifer Aaker, Jeff Pfeffer, Tim Lister, Matt Mason, Guy Kawasaki, Hugh MacLeod, Tim Lister, Bill Buxton and Alberto Savoia speak on the Business of Software in San Jose, October 29th-30th, then you’ve got until the 20th October until the pre-event discount expires. Go to [...]
Red Gate is hosting a party in Cambridge, UK to celebrate Slashdot’s 10th anniversary. There will be free food and drink. You can sign up at http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=553 I hope to see some of you there.
Often people from outside a field bring an interesting perspective. It took a physicist (Richard Feynman) to decipher the Mayan Dresden codex (it described the movement of the planet Venus, not the actions of the gods). It’s taking a businessman (Bill Gates) to revolutionize global health. On a smaller scale, bringing an outsider with a [...]