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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. Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

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? Are there exceptions in the open source world? Absolutely. Firefox rocks.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws.

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An Overview Of The SIP Trunk Definition And What It Takes To Sell

YoungUpstarts

You know, those internet-based phone systems that everyone is crazy about right now. SIP, which stands for Session Initiation Protocol, and is one of the more common protocols in voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technologies. You may not have heard of the sip trunk definition, but you may be familiar with VOIP telephones.

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Startup Tools: Free Software open Source Directory

VC Cafe

A ttempting to create a comprehensive list of free and open source tools will probably always remain ‘work in progress’ just for the sheer depth and breadth of the Internet. Open source. Open source. audio & video qualitative analysis. Open source. video editing.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Now, with the use of technology and the internet, especially with the pandemic, the landscape is shifting to safe, non-contact phone sales for life insurance. Digital navigation classes teach you how to use the correct tools to get around the internet. 16- Shift from image to video. Thanks to Lattice Hudson, Lattice & Co !