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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. At least in the consumer & business web.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Have an account? The CTO should always be looking for a better way to do things and inspiring the developers to do the same. David Schnurman , Lawline.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

Unless you’re a designer you’re going to outsource the graphical design work you have, but remember, you get what you pay for. Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). where you can leverage some internal “low cost&# time.

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Transcript of The Key to Success? Taking Care of Your Community

Duct Tape Marketing

For those that are familiar with Studio Press, it was pretty much the industry standard for word press things for many, many years powered by the [Janis 00:01:44] framework, which is our design framework that makes word press more powerful and easier to use. Why can’t you do design for me? We came together in 2010.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. We will integrate the design and be live for testing end of next week. Still, he got his guys in the Ukraine to code something up.