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Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups

ReadWriteStart

In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right? Those teams are among 50 globally participating in the Founder.org program’s second-year class. Were you insane?

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Why would one chose to develop with a particular framework over any other?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.