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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? The UI could kill small animals.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off. Be sure you find someone who is not just competent in understanding technology, but someone who is passionate about technology.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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When you’re working with a freelance or contract developer, make sure you have all your paperwork — from non-disclosure agreements to invoices and beyond — signed and sealed early in the process. Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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Webmasterworld - A popular forum for web developers. SitePoint Forums - A popular marketplace and forum for web developers. Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

Non-descriptive links: Having links like “Click here,” “website,” and “visit us here” are great ways to keep your profile looking natural. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. Vary the links you get with different keywords. Beef Up Your Content. Good content will never hurt you.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

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The reason students sign up for a course in the Semantic Web is because they sense that there is real innovation here. Web technologies need to be accessible to non-technical people as well as technical people. But that means that it will be necessarily unlike whatever was available in their technological experience.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source).