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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety. I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Microsoft made a half-hearted attempt to “open” the languages by publishing an ECMA standards document, and there is an Open Source implementation ( Mono ) available, but for the most part development with.NET requires use of Microsoft operating systems and licenses. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

Co-Founders Jeff Fernandez, Surag Mungekar, and Nick Narodny are CEO, CTO, and Chief Content Officer, respectively. IvyDate is a highly private, matching based community which does not place member information in a browsable database. Yet, there isn’t one place for credible Internet education and training.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment. This happens a lot.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Gordon spent 10 years as chief creative officer at EA and has an active interest in console and MMORPG games (some of which he helped create). Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. SCVNGR Uses Googles Places Database. View More » Apple iOS 4.2

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

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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