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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Harvard Business Review

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. We open sourced Mobify.js , our core framework that enables web developers and designers to create a mobile-friendly version of their website. Is it worth it?

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Employers Aren’t Just Whining – the “Skills Gap” Is Real

Harvard Business Review

Consider, for example, graphic designers. Until recently, almost all graphic designers designed for print. Then came the Internet and demand grew for web designers. Then came smartphones and demand grew for mobile designers. Instead, designers have to learn on the job, so experience matters.

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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Harvard Business Review

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. We open sourced Mobify.js , our core framework that enables web developers and designers to create a mobile-friendly version of their website. Is it worth it?

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

What about “ The Rise of the Supertemp ” that Jody Greenstone Miller and Matt Miller reported in HBR in 2012? “When you start throwing these other people in, that’s where the growth is,” says Steve King of Emergent Research , which designed the survey. ” That gets the total to an estimated 17.7

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