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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. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. In 2003 U.C.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] on 07 Sep 2010 at 11:16 am [.] ?????

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] on 07 Sep 2010 at 11:16 am [.] ?????

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. In 2003 U.C.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Later, when the company was much larger, we had everyone on our engineering team agree to sit in on one usability test every month. Most of the people building our product werent themselves target customers.