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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

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Anyone who’s been around me for the past 6-12 months has been inundated with my evangelism of eCommerce in general and Drupal + PHP. They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP. Drupal and PHP were tools I’ve acknowledged for a decade but never studied much.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. So then, why are we teaching our students to trust fall without any revenues of their own to catch them? No revenues, no costs. 3) Open source your real estate.

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

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With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. My personal favorites would be Java (Grails), Ruby (on rails) and PHP. Plus, by the time you’re ready to expand into a paid service, your business should have some revenue trickling in the front door to justify the upgrade.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

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TokyoYuki Question: What about giving an added incentive to potential developers, in exchange for part of up-front fees, a percentage of the revenue generated from the app/program? View More » Business The 12 Days of Holiday Revenue Maximi. PHP Developer at Ultra Logistics (Fai. Saitek Executive.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. They do the spec and marketing work and are seeing $80k a month in revenue, so a successfull relationship with contract development work is very possible. Recent Posts.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

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The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&# If your selected mentor agrees that they’re a good fit, you can exchange contact information and start learning from each other. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date.