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Joel Spolsky

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Joel Spolsky is a globally-recognized expert on the software development process. His website Joel on Software is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over thirty languages. As the co-founder of Fog Creek Software in New York City, he created FogBugz, a popular project management system for software teams. Joel has worked at Microsoft, where he designed VBA as a member of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services, developing an Internet client used by millions. He has written three books: User Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001), Joel on Software (Apress, 2004), and recently, Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent (Apress, 2007). He also writes a monthly column for Inc Magazine. Joel holds a BS from Yale in Computer Science. Before college he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton.

Recent Milestones

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  Joel Spolsky invested in Lore. (1/3/12)
  Posted 1/2/12 at 9:12am via nytimes.com
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  Joel Spolsky added a position as Advisor at Veri. (1/1/11)
  Posted 5/9/11 at 10:01am
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  Joel Spolsky added a position as Chairman of the Board at Fog Creek Software.
  Posted 4/28/09 at 9:05am
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  Joel Spolsky added a position as CEO at Stack Exchange.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 8:42am
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  Joel Spolsky added a position as Chairman of the Board at Application Developers Alliance.
  Posted 10/17/12 at 1:07pm

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1. NYT (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]