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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. Those teams are among 50 globally participating in the Founder.org program’s second-year class. Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right? Were you insane?

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Which language should my startup use?

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Language doesnt matter Complex web applications can be built in just about any programming language, and its not really the language that is so important as the frameworks that are available. Tags: startup programming language startupcto. framework was built. Rails is a web framework at heart, and is less suitable for non-web projects.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. I have had a programming job and tried to do side projects after work/ weekends.

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

pandodaily.com

Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.