Re: shattered record

My take is that startups are starting to bubble under in Silicon Valley. I am searching for and finding companies at a very early stage with interesting technology that is drawing interest form investors for the first time in years.

I for one would like to see Perl exploited in the near future as a tool for rapid prototyping of product samples, demos, and the like. It's versatility in this area is unmatched IMHO.

In fact, although I freely admit I don't have anything for you quite yet, if you are interested in this type of work and can honestly count yourself at the good tail of the 10x sw developer productivity range, then I'd like to know about you sooner rather then later.

Or if you have some ultra cool perl-based technology and some funding already (angel level perhaps?) and need someone who can help you build a business model and marketing plan, then I invite you to contact me too.

I can be reached via email of via my web site, www.ProductManagementDepartment.com

Best,

Barry Caplan


At 07:04 PM 3/29/2004 -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:

>Marty Landman wrote:
>>At 09:51 AM 3/26/2004, Uri Guttman wrote:
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>>>i would like to know if this is the general
>>>economy getting better (doesn't feel like it) or the site is just
>>>getting better known to more hiring types.
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>>IMHO since our sector was hit first and it took a full year before most folks were complaining about the economy while my business was floundering all that time, things are likely to come back up the same way where we see the improvements before many others do.
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>Well TMTOWTDI,
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>I guess this depends on which camp you fall in, do you believe,
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>1. That innovation drives profit and that there is a causal relationship with IT, or
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>2. That IT is a value add, but not a core business feature.
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>If you are in the first camp then you would probably be correct, assuming you had peaked in your innovation output and your marginal profit began to drop (or you started to see diminished marginal return of using IT to cost cut) then you would cut IT first, then having survived the doldrums would bring back IT first to jumpstart innovation and accelerate your profit curve.  However, if you are in the second, then you will believe reducing IT will minimally affect your marginal profit but maximally reduce your marginal cost, so you drop it first *and* believe that adding IT back in is something you hold off doing until you have maximized your profit and maximally reduced your cost, so that the *only* way to increase profit or reduce cost is to add IT back in.
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>For now I think a majority of sectors are still in the second camp, with a few industries living on the first, which is why you are seeing the first to go, last to return relationship.
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>Of course the Z factor in all of this is exports, and again two camps, do you believe that offshoring only decreases potential work in your locality, or does it increase it based on some sort of trickle down effect (and assuming you are stateside).
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>Either way the market is definitely at work, there was an interesting article a couple of days ago on one of the wires about the enrollment rates in IT based degrees at major universities being off some 30-70%. That means in 4 years graduation rates for IT degreed students will be off roughly the same, which hopefully will remove the glut in the market that the late nineties caused *and* should also provide a quality improvement too, because not everyone and their sister will "Become a Web Developer in 4 easy steps", the "tech sector" will revert to what it was before people actually interested in innovation rather than just a pay check bigger than what they can get doing some other work....
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>But that's just my couple of cents, ....
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