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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. Blogs were part of the shift to a more intimate, frenzied, and on the go media landscape.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

So a lot of incumbent business software companies did what a lot of big companies actually did and other industries, media companies after the dot-com crash, which is they said, “Oh, thank God we don’t have to worry about this Internet thing. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

” Other Adobe products offer capabilities for marketing automation and email, media optimization, audience insights creating and delivering experiences across digital and television,and social. Piwik is the open source alternative to Google Analytics. Very handy for detecting culprits that slow down the site.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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The Blockchain: Ending Data Hacks

View from Seed

In 2002, online commerce accounted for just 1.6% Those internet commerce websites, not to mention social media platforms, online banking accounts, and any other digital destination where we’ve left our identities, personal information and financial access, aren’t foolproof vaults for storing our sensitive data.