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Visions of Web 3

Version One Ventures

More creative and economic opportunity for developers and entrepreneurs. But how close are we to offering credible Web 3 solutions for average users? And how might such a Web 3 world look? In my mind, there are five key Web 3 primitives: Identity, Compute, Communication, Storage, and Value. Communication.

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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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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

That’s why lists like Ycombinator’s Requests for Startups (RFS) help entrepreneurs thinking about starting a company (or picking a problem) and can be a good barometer for founders on what’s interesting to investors right now.

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Hiring A Web Developer: 11 Questions You Must Ask Ahead Of Time

YoungUpstarts

If you are a business owner who is not an expert in web development, finding someone (or an agency) you can trust to build your website is critical. Do you work predominantly with proprietary or open source software? One of the main benefits of open source software is being able to pick up where others left off.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is talking about the fact that there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today, and how their innovative idea could make them one of the next ones. Becoming an entrepreneur is actually a commitment to a new lifestyle, certainly very exciting, but also facing many unknowns and risks.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Absolutely.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.