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Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups

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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? We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset. Were you insane?

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Which language should my startup use?

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These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?