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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups

Both Sides of the Table

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. Who is this program for and why does it exist? 350 billion of this money is dedicated to small businesses under a loan program called the PPP (payroll protection plan). payroll protection. It depends.

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Whether you’re building the next best home automation system, a revolutionary robotics product, or a new kind of software, the programming language you use to make it happen is the foundation of your work. Source: Pexels. You get the idea: every programming language has a certain “vibe” to it and attracts certain people.

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. The rest is just down and dirty algorithmic programming. We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. or decision-making processes (like understanding text and images) without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data.

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Open-source Something Often

Diego Basch

If you write code for a living, when was the last time you released something as open source? Assuming you take pride in your work (if you don’t… well), open-source code is an incentive to: Make sure the code is not horrendously embarrassing. What have you open-sourced for me lately?

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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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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. For that purpose, she launched Embed , an accelerator program. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.