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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. In all the interviews you've read about founders' success, how many credit their MBA program? Except in certain industries (e.g. food, drug, medical), I'm unaware of companies who stave off quality competitors through patent holdings. How many even have MBAs?

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

They’ve released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play around with real production code, and modify the base examples for their own use. When I first started program, it was 1979. When I started programming on an IBM PC in 1983, I did exactly the same thing.

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How To Save Money In Business: 10 Tips For Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Collaboration programs make it easy to communicate with your employees and client online. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. If you haven’t been able to save up for your capital, consider bootstrapping your business. Buy Used Furniture.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? Bootstrapping involves launching a business on a low budget. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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TechWildcatters Applications Due March 19

The Startup Lawyer

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program. Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0, BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

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TechWildcatters Applications Due March 19

The Startup Lawyer

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program. Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0, BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? for Harvard Business Revie.

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