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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. The All-Seeing Eye – Hardware and storage should be rethought from the ground up in the age of semantic video understanding, and powerful on-device models.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

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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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

blog.teamtreehouse.com

While this is a semantic improvement, every framework still added layout data to HTML. Also checkout Neat — [link] — Neat is an open source semantic grid framework built on top of Sass and Bourbon. If this sounds familiar, it’s because many of these features have been around since the beginning. Old school.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

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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