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MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

While this is a semantic improvement, every framework still added layout data to HTML. This framework uses a 12-column grid with a breakpoint to one column at 768 pixels, and includes one separate stylesheet for debugging and one for Internet Explorer. It begs the question, what does layout with CSS offer over tables? Old school.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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