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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Painting with Numbers , by Randall Bolten.

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14 predictions for 2014 that media experts find unlikely

The Next Web

To be clear, blogs, posts, and tweets have value, but content marketing will get harder in 2014 as brands struggle for scale, reach, and penetration. - Augie Ray , Former Forrester Analyst, Finance Social Media Executive. Mobile will continue to expand. there’s probably little of “big data” that applies towards you.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

mashable.com

For brand loyalty and location hooks its actually a 3rd-Rail integration process ( foursquare and groupon, facebook ) There is a critical Key to this… having cache-able high performance entry for the user experience and some amount of offline functionality to support poor connectivity issue moments.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Panda (Open source). VC & Startup Resources. SlideShare.