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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

Since 2003, October has been recognized as National Cyber Security Awareness Month in an effort to promote safety and security online. by Marcus Harris, Software Litigator at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. I had to be there. crickets*.

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WordPress vs Webflow

ConversionXL

First launched in 2003, WordPress is the leading CMS by which 35% of the entire internet is powered. As founder Haradhan shares : “[WordPress is free and open-source software, and also every WordPress developer already make some functional themes and plugin which things make our some works effortless.”. Image source ).

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The VC Inclusion Clause #MovingForward

Both Sides of the Table

We have decided to “open source” our language in the hopes that other VCs will use this clause and/or improve upon it so that as an industry we can proactively drive the change we want to see rather than just hoping it will happen. We see this as an open source inclusion clause. It is being launched today?—?International

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. Big frameworks and enterprise CMS are starting to loose loosing the game against open source software and systems that were initially very basic tools built by visionary kids.

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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

www.readwriteweb.com

Thanks to Apples iOS and Googles open source Android OS, smartphone and tablet apps have enjoyed a period of astounding success over the past few years. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb. If it can be done on the Web, build it for the Web; if it can’t, build an app." Alex Schleifer , GM of the Media Lab at SAY Media. startupcto

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