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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

His premise was that the delivery method of software – and whether there was actual media involved (i.e., He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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How I Blog

Duct Tape Marketing

In 2005 I met that folks at Automatic at SXSW and they offered to migrate me to a somewhat newish platform called WordPress and that’s where I’ve remained and what I recommend. Google XML Sitemaps - helps push content to search engines. Sociable – adds social media icons to post so reader can easily share content.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Starting in 2005 with 300 attendees from a variety of backgrounds (research, academia and entrepreneurs), this past conference had 1200 attendees from large enterprises, government and a lot more startups and entrepreneurs. Huge media players such as New York Times and Thompson Reuters/Open Calais publish Linked Data.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) Does your productuse XML? ) Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You got two out of three right when you said.NET and Java are limiting, but you left out XML (still mostly a solution still looking for a problem). For many tasks, XML is the least portable format). In 2005 our no-longer-startup was bought for $350 Million, making many millionaires of the original employees and investors.

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