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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? 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

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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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

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.) As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003. get to know each other first, etc.

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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.