Business of Software Podcast
Business of Software
Business of Software is a place that brings together the brightest minds and greatest practitioners in software into one place.
World-Class software leaders such as Joel Spolsky, Gail Goodman, Seth Godin, DHH, Dharmesh Shah, & Kathy Sierra come to teach everything except the code in how to scale great software companies that stay profitable in the long term. Expect the latest thinking and fresh perspectives from some of the world's leading software practitioners.
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World-Class software leaders such as Joel Spolsky, Gail Goodman, Seth Godin, DHH, Dharmesh Shah, & Kathy Sierra come to teach everything except the code in how to scale great software companies that stay profitable in the long term. Expect the latest thinking and fresh perspectives from some of the world's leading software practitioners.
Stay up to date and hear about new talks, videos, podcasts and conference updates. http://businessofsoftware.org/updates
Episodes
Mentioned books
Aug 9, 2016 • 59min
The Science Of Lean Startups | Eric Ries | Business of Software Conference
Most software projects fail. Most startups fail. Most new products are never used. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The Lean Startup is a disciplined approach to imagining, designing, and building new products. By testing our assumptions earlier, faster, and with more rigor, we can stop wasting people’s time.
Aug 1, 2016 • 8min
Mark Dalgarno | The Worst Lightning Talk In History | Business Of Software
Mark Dalgarno, speaking about motivating people and coming up with new ideas through a technique he calls "The Anti-Problem"
Aug 1, 2016 • 8min
Tania Katan | It Was Never A Dress | Business of Software Conference
In an effort to break down barriers and shift perceptions of women in technology—and all spaces—Axosoft used their tech superhero powers of collaboration, cross-functionality, and agility to offer up a radically reimagined women’s bathroom symbol. This new symbol has started an international conversation that is picking up STEAM! Since the campaign launched just one month ago, it has generated over 18 million impressions, received attention from every major media outlet, and is funding a scholarship at Arizona State University for a need-based student entering a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) field.
Aug 1, 2016 • 35min
From Bootstrap To $60m. What I've Learnt | Scott Farquhar, Atlassian | Business of Software
Scott talks about running a software company . You'll hear about how to pick a business model & how they built a workplace that has won numerous HR awards.
Aug 1, 2016 • 7min
Marketing To Minorities | Patrick McKenzie | Business of Software Conference
If you want to learn about how to target niche minority markets like non-Americans, non-techies and even the 50% of the world's population that is, shock horror, female, and you enjoy laughing out loud, this is worth 7 minutes 30 seconds of your life.
Jul 25, 2016 • 1h
Building The Minimum Badass User | Kathy Sierra | Business Of Software Conference
Not only some of the smartest advice anyone has given about how to approach software development, there is also a trick that is guaranteed to make you feel more confident, more powerful and more in control of what you do.
It costs nothing, takes no time and you can use it whenever you want to. Enjoy!
Jul 18, 2016 • 1h 1min
Too Important To Be Left To The Marketing Department | Seth Godin | Business of Software Conference
Seth talks about how ideas that spread win. And takes us through his laws of Software!
Jul 13, 2016 • 1h 9min
Rewrite! | David Heinemeier Hansson | Business Of Software Conference USA 2015
What’s number one on Joel Spolsky’s list of ‘Things You Should Never Do’?
“Rewrite your software from scratch.“
David Heinemeier Hansson disagrees.
In this talk, ‘Rewrite!‘ at Business of Software Conference USA 2015, David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-Founder, Basecamp, and Creator of Ruby on Rails explains why he disagrees and discusses his experience in rewriting the code for Basecamp, not once, but twice, with the third version of Basecamp launched this month.
