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Merrill R. Chapman

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Rick Chapman is the managing editor and publisher of Softletter. He is the author of "In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters" (Apress), "The Product Marketing Handbook for Software," and "SaaS Entrepreneur: The Definitive Guide to Succeeding in Your Cloud Application Business." Rick has worked and consulted in the software industry for such industry pioneers as MicroPro (WordStar) and Ashton-Tate and consulted for a wide variety of software and high technology firms such as IBM, Novell, Microsoft, Sun and many others.

In his career Rick has worked as a programmer, sales engineer, product manager, and VP of marketing and product management.

Rule-Set: A Novel of a Quantum Future is his first novel. ...more

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Dishing It Out for the Home Team: My Review of "Rogue Mission" by Jeffrey S. Stephens

Rogue Mission by Jeffrey S. Stephens

Read my interview with author Jeffrey S. Stephens on Jordan Sandor, Rogue Mission, and The Bronx by clicking on this link.

Series: Jordan Sandor (Book 4)
Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Post Hill Press (April 26, 2016)
Purchase at Amazon
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1618688138
ISBN-13: 978-1618688132

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	In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters 3.95 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selling Steve Jobs' Liver: A Story of Startups, Innovation, and Connectivity in the Clouds by Merrill R. Chapman (Goodreads Author), Steven Wells (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rule-Set: A Novel of a Quantum Future by Merrill R. Chapman (Goodreads Author), Norah Khor (Illustrator) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
― Merrill R. Chapman, In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

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“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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