In order to be a successful manager of a development or I.T team, you need to have an outstanding track record of making the right decision, foreseeing when other decisions will cause problems down the road, be a good judge of character, and have the ability to work with (or deal with) personalities that normally would drive you crazy. These are things that you can't really accomplish in a few years.
Just like auto-dealerships should never promote their best salesman to management, software companies should never promote their best developers to management. Most of them will be miserable anyways.
There's a certain type of developer that makes a great manager. But they are few and far between.
Also, the few very talented developers make more than their managers do anyways.
Anyone that has studied marketing at all would know that New Coke was a way to replace sugar with corn syrup in Coke and not have a back lash. Introducing New Coke for a few weeks forced customers to beg for old Coke back. When Coke Classic was brought to market, no one complained about Corn Syrup because it was so close in task to the original.
Comparing Coke's brilliant idea to trick people into accepting change to Microsoft's blunder makes no sense!
I went through this same thing with my first start up.
Plan on spending 2/3 of your money on marketing. Only 1/3rd should be used to actually build/test/etc your product.
You should be worried about how the app or product actually works. Don't do the marketing yourself. If you know how you want to market it, that's fine. If that's the case, hire someone to just take orders from you. If you don't know how you want to market it, hire someone that can utilize personal connections in the field you are in.
It is simply not possible to program, secure funding, bug test, bug fix, and market all yourself.
Whichever is the better media center will probably be the winner. I wish one of them would have a cable card slot and lease the UbuntuTV or TIVO interface for live TV and DVR...
Just another reason I wish cable cards were more widely used. XBMC, MythTV, UbuntuTV and handful of other programs support live TV and cable cards that have a much better interface than the cable boxes given out by cable providers.
I wish the OS and backup partitions on tablets and phones were on a completely different drive. I mean for the most part, the OS could actually be on a flash ROM.
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In order to be a successful manager of a development or I.T team, you need to have an outstanding track record of making the right decision, foreseeing when other decisions will cause problems down the road, be a good judge of character, and have the ability to work with (or deal with) personalities that normally would drive you crazy. These are things that you can't really accomplish in a few years. Just like auto-dealerships should never promote their best salesman to management, software companies should never promote their best developers to management. Most of them will be miserable anyways. There's a certain type of developer that makes a great manager. But they are few and far between. Also, the few very talented developers make more than their managers do anyways.
Anyone that has studied marketing at all would know that New Coke was a way to replace sugar with corn syrup in Coke and not have a back lash. Introducing New Coke for a few weeks forced customers to beg for old Coke back. When Coke Classic was brought to market, no one complained about Corn Syrup because it was so close in task to the original. Comparing Coke's brilliant idea to trick people into accepting change to Microsoft's blunder makes no sense!
Why is George even talking about this? It scares me that he's involved at all...
I went through this same thing with my first start up. Plan on spending 2/3 of your money on marketing. Only 1/3rd should be used to actually build/test/etc your product. You should be worried about how the app or product actually works. Don't do the marketing yourself. If you know how you want to market it, that's fine. If that's the case, hire someone to just take orders from you. If you don't know how you want to market it, hire someone that can utilize personal connections in the field you are in. It is simply not possible to program, secure funding, bug test, bug fix, and market all yourself.
I don't understand why someone would think this wouldn't work? It's like asking if putting glasses on an older person will help them see better.
Whichever is the better media center will probably be the winner. I wish one of them would have a cable card slot and lease the UbuntuTV or TIVO interface for live TV and DVR...
It's snappy, POSIX compliant, C++/qt and HTML apps. I haven't had a blackberry since a Pearl in like 2007. Competition is good.
Why does Facebook even offer an API to developers if any time an app becomes popular they block them?
I totally agree. I mean they could call almost any website a social network now.
Just another reason I wish cable cards were more widely used. XBMC, MythTV, UbuntuTV and handful of other programs support live TV and cable cards that have a much better interface than the cable boxes given out by cable providers.
I wish the OS and backup partitions on tablets and phones were on a completely different drive. I mean for the most part, the OS could actually be on a flash ROM.