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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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As an example of how dumb they were (for those that don’t remember) whenever you changed one field in a browser-designed program the entire screen had to refresh. We designed our code and tested it in a Firefox browser and once we had working code we then had to figure out how to make the clunky Internet Explorer work.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. At least in the consumer & business web.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. There was no open source, no code repositories like GitHub, no knowledge hubs like StackExchange. I told her I wasn’t yet convinced that she’d make a good: product manager, designer, sales person, leader, CEO.

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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups

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We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. They have regulations that dictate things like KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti money-laundering) and other regulations designed to avoid abuse of our financial institutions.

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

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You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. Others should swing for the fences - Some companies are designed to be big, industry changing plays. We all know that. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Cincinnati has had the accelerator The Brandery for several years, which caters to the great strengths of design and brand management that are dominant in this city. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem.