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The Narrow Road Between Success and Failure
Before I started Likewise Software, I was in the venture capital business. Although my role was more on the “back end”, performing due diligence once we’d decided to invest in a company, I heard many, many pitches from aspiring entrepreneurs. For the great majority of these pitches (probably 95% of them or so), I recommended…
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Be Smart About Virtualization
We are heavy users of virtualization at Likewise Software. Since we develop software for over 100 different platforms (multiple flavors of UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X), we have to be able to boot up a Red Hat 2.1 machine one minute and a Open Solaris machine the next. Developers and testers, both, need access…
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Usability Testing, Revisited
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about usability testing. Mostly, I talked about testing methodology and the value that it brings. We’ve now finished 8 sessions and I thought it would be good to revisit the subject. Once again, I’m amazed by how much value usability testing can provide. We’ve been testing our Likewise…