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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress. Here’s Part 2 of Dino’s story….

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Despite all these advantages, it seems that the foreign investors are still reluctant to invest in seed and early stage projects.

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New investment: Upverter, a cloud-based platform for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

In the design phase, we believe that hardware engineering will follow a similar path as the open source software community that built GitHub. Version One is co-leading this investment with Golden Venture Partners, and joined by several angel investors.

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Twitter Link Roundup #37 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Angel-Backed Companies More Likely to Succeed, Says Harvard Study – [link]. Angel investors becoming more active in the Valley – [link]. 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. Never Hire Job Hoppers.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. are built on Drupal. Big boy applications. What is Drupal?