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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. But first… what is a game engine, exactly? Godot editor demo.

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CTO Founders / Cofounders

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This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. … And it’s not just inexperienced CTOs. Lack of confidence? Camaraderie?

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A new venture studio, SuperLayer, aims to become a preeminent Web3 launch pad

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In the case of Superlayer, that founder is Kevin Chou, who sold his gaming company, Kabam, for $800 million back in 2018 and almost immediately jumped headlong into the world of blockchain technologies, which he believes can unlock new economic opportunities, including for gamers and or creators. As Roelof Botha, the head of Sequoia’s U.S.

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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

Apiumhub

Christian Ciceri is a software architect and cofounder at Apiumhub , a software development company known for software architecture excellence. Rene Weiss – Software Architect, Consultant & CTO at FINABRO. Rene Weiss is a CTO at Finabro. João Rosa – Principal Consultant and Interim CTO.

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Innovation and Geography

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. My only other complaint is that right now its very hard to find good technical people at all levels.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

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Gaudin has a financial industry background, having worked at JP Morgan as a developer and Deutsche Bank as a software team leader before cofounding SonarSource. Freddy Mallet, SonarSource’s second cofounder, was a project architect at E-Trade and CTO at agtech startup Hortis. ” Accelerating momentum.

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Working with Developers

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It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.