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Joel on Software

19

by Joel Spolsky
Thursday, June 19, 2003

For devotees of the arsDigita soap opera, another insider's view. MuchNext Slide, Please! overlooked in the fact that incompetent VCs destroyed the company was the fact that demand for the company's product (Internet consulting) had plummeted.

From Aaron Swartz's devastatingly funny parody of Tufte's latest:

  • PowerPoint is standard…
  • …but bad.
  • Why?

 


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