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How to Start a Startup

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But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. So if youre developing technologyfor money, youre probably not going to be developing it for peoplelike you. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses.