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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. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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Product Development Improvements That Are Shaping The World

The Startup Magazine

Now more than ever, plastics are very useful in product design because there are a lot of benefits of using plastic. You can create optimum plastic product designs by choosing the materials, tooling, and processes. Product designers can incorporate organic shapes, consolidate part designs, and emboss text into a cast.

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Five Keys To Remote Business Success Every Founder Needs To Know In 2021

YoungUpstarts

Make sure computers and devices – many of which are designed to last just 3 to 5 years – are updated and serviced on a regular basis. Consider using premium paid or open source software whenever possible. Unmaintained systems leave open the potential for malicious access to your data and devices.

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World with Bitcoin

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin was created by an anonymous person or group under the name Satoshi Nakamoto and released as open-source software in 2009. The number of Bitcoins that can be created is regulated by Bitcoin mining which is designed to max out at 21 million Bitcoins. What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital resource (like money).

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How to Plan and Budget for an eCommerce Website

Up and Running

You’ll need to consider the design and build of product pages, setting up shipping and payment processing , and implementing the proper security protocols to protect customer’s data. One large advantage of WooCommerce is that it is an open-source platform, so there are hundreds of thousands of web teams who specialize in this technology.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc. In this week we generally describe the business rationale of why you need these.