Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Tag: Evergreen

  • Student startup passion vs. market potential

    Student startup passion vs. market potential

    As part of being a professor, I’m trying to motivate student startups. Here, I want to talk about student startups coming out of a Master’s program. These are different from startups coming out of my research lab, which are based on work with my Ph.D. students. Master student startups are typically smaller, not based on…

  • Tabs vs. spaces and cause vs. effect

    Tabs vs. spaces and cause vs. effect

    Stack Overflow of the “full stackoverflow programmer” fame just published a developer survey. Among the items was a question asking developers, what they prefer for indenting their code: Tabs or spaces? The majority of developers prefers tabs over spaces by a reasonable margin. What worries me, though, is the conclusion or the “trend” that the…

  • Founders vs. success vs. home-runs

    Founders vs. success vs. home-runs

    A student of mine pointed me to this article about who founds companies. It is a well-known fact (or at least lore as I have no reference at hand) that the highest success rate as a founder is with those around age 40 (38 according to the article). At that age, a founder has worked…