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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models.

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Why Your Startup Should Be Involved in Open Source

ReadWriteStart

Oftentimes, when you hear the arguments for "Why open source?", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software. But the other piece of the argument is, of course, an argument for why your company should build open source - why it should develop its technology in a community-driven, open sourced way.

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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. Developer in a Box – the ability to go from a human description of an issue to a draft solution, in code, to the problem.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. Enter Burstly.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving. In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries. Mobile banking in developing countries. Here are just a few.

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First prototype, Design and UI — Mobile Game Development Guide #2

Austin Startup

Now let’s see realistic part of developing a game on mobile.It Moises Technical Developments The most exciting part of last week, we saw the game on a phone. In mobile games you want the player to be close enough to see details on the characters but not too far so as they lose immersion and detail. Hence, it scares us a little.

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Why is node JS the best framework to launch a Multivendor Ecommerce marketplace Store?

The Startup Magazine

Node.js, a wonderfully passionate framework implemented to create a node JS shopping cart, is broadly utilized by developers around the planet. Source: Flickr. Node JS is also capable in taking care of dynamic and acute database triggered Mobile and Web Applications. has changed the framework by which apps were designed.