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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

When I started investing in companies that were building Web apps in 1994, it was once again all HTML / source code and examples everywhere. Tags: Open Source data simplegeo. Your goal should be to make it as simple as possible for a developer to immediately start using your API in ways relevant to them.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. No company has even come close to the colossal number of orders it receives on a daily basis.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. Open source and crowdsourcing principles are well understood: When you get enough talented people working on a problem, especially in an open way, progress comes quickly. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

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Simon Phipps Subscribe to this blog About Author Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is now at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. Follow me as @webmink on Twitter and Identi.Ca startupcto

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Digital Currency and Bitcoinmania. Is ProfessorVC too Late to the Party?

Professor VC

For those not familiar with Ripple, it is an open-source, distributed payment protocol. Some people make the analogy of digital currencies being at the same stage the Internet was at in 1994. Ripple Labs also announced it''s developer portal and support of the CrossCoin accelerator.