Category: 1. Software Industry

  • Startupinformatik at IT-Gipfel Göttingen #itgipfelgoe

    I just returned from a presentation (and panel discussion) about entrepreneurship and Startupinformatik, my structured approach to creating student startups from a computer science Master’s program. Below, please find the slides of my presentation. [slideshare id=72790387&doc=startupinformatik-170303233054]

  • Morning Traffic in Silicon Valley

  • Why on Earth?! Why Product Vendors Invest in Open Source Software (Upcoming Talk, in German)

    I give industry talks about every other week and stopped advertising them long ago. This one, however, may be of broad interest. I will talk about the economics of strategically creating and leading open source projects at the June 20th, 2017, Open Source Forum of Bitkom in Berlin. Title and abstract below, event details to…

  • Making Introductions for Job Interviews

    (Cross-posting from https://oss.cs.fau.de.) As a human being, as a professional, and more recently as a professor, I’m happy to help people find jobs (time permitting). In fact, as a professor we have tagged HR professionals in our CRM database so that we can reach out easily to them. Still, introductions for job interviews require preparation…

  • Putting on Their #Gearface (no Google Daydream)

    With all the hoopla on Google Daydream coming up, I thought I’d share two photos of people high on Samsung’s Gear VR. I think Samsung chose a better name for their product. The second photo clearly shows a person with a gearface. Can’t imaging calling this a daydreamface. The future is so bright, you’ll have…

  • Mitgründer für Startup mit Existierenden Kunden Gesucht

    Für Uni1 (http://uni1.de) suchen wir mindestens einen weiteren technischen Mitgründer (oder frühen Angestellten, wenn weniger Risiko gewünscht ist). Uni1 will die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Unternehmen und Hochschulen weltweit revolutionieren. Uni1 hat bereits Kunden und basiert auf einem erprobten Konzept. Wir können zur Zeit wg. (noch nicht) ausreichender Softwareunterstützung leider nicht skalieren. Ideal wäre ein Full-Stack-Entwickler mit…