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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Transform financial and accounting software from databases to context-aware, proactive processors.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). Of course there are exceptions?—?last

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When You Should Still Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL

www.readwriteweb.com

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. In a blog post at DBMS2 , database veteran Curt Monash explains when its still best to use a relational database. nnIn a blog post at DBMS2 , database veteran Curt Monash explains when its still best to use a relational database.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 16:54) Jen discusses making open source tools. (19:16) How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. (

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. Many social channels are free to use and help to drive traffic and sales. Email is a direct digital channel with strong ROI, I strongly recommend MailChimp to start with. Step 5: Marketing and sales.

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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. The CTO should always be looking for a better way to do things and inspiring the developers to do the same. David Schnurman , Lawline. startupcto