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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land. Copyright © 2003-2010 James Governor, RedMonk. Development by Crowd Favorite. Some rights reserved.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land. Copyright © 2003-2010 James Governor, RedMonk. Development by Crowd Favorite. Some rights reserved.

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Weekend Favs June Twenty Five :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

Flowplayer – open source flash video player that allows you to customize the player for your embedded video and create a branded player – a step up from simple YouTube embeds for serious video experience.

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Has the individual investor learned a lesson?

BeyondVC

million of revenue in 2003 with a net loss of $4.1 The loan bears interest at the rate of 10% simple interest per year and matures on June 30, 2005. It will tell us whether or not speculation will run rampant again. As you know, I do find Linux on the desktop intriguing. Michael did pay $4.5

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. What follows are solely his opinions.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 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.

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Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

Software By Rob

Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars. Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. How’d they do it? Startup #4: Github. How’d they do it?