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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. 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? Absolutely.

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7 A/B Testing Resources for Startups and Solo Developers

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An open source bit of software, Vanity allows you to conduct A/B testing on your site and returns a simple report back to you. James Sylvanus There's a free PHP split testing (A/B) library at www.phpscenario.org. I designed it to be a 2-3 minute drop-in to any given php project, with one-line testing for simple A/B cases.

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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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! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). Panda (Open source).

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Subscribe to comments with RSS. You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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11 Trends in Web Logo Design

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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View Comments Watch Facebook, Groupon and Quora’s Founders Speak at Startup School [VIDEO] View Comments Mashable Weekend Recap: 19 Stories You Might Have Missed View Comments Groupon’s Founder on How to Get Super Rich View Comments PHP, MySQL & AJAX Developer at Comentum Corp. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B.