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Design’s New Frontier: The IRL Era

Tom Tunguz

When backend software meets the real world through a mobile phone, that’s an IRL experience. The payments systems are in place, the integrations with airlines and taxis and inventory systems and physical things like locks exist. IRL apps require radical simplicity in their design. In Web 2.0,

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“I Was Seduced By a Build Scenario”: 11 Ways to Avoid This Exec’s Greatest Tech Failure

BetterCloud

When it comes to enterprise software, the build vs. buy conundrum is a common one that many companies grapple with. At MIT’s 2014 CIO Symposium, ThomasNet President Mark Holst-Knudsen said his greatest business/technology failure was building software when they could have bought it. 52% of projects were challenged, and 19% failed.