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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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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Ruby was considered a dead language to all but some system administrators when it was revived in 2003 by 37signals to develop their award-winning productivity startup Basecamp, and then taken on to power Twitter. Ruby on Rails is a combination of framework and language, with Ruby being the language and Rails being the framework.

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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.