ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. Those teams are among 50 globally participating in the Founder.org program’s second-year class. We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). Let me explain: 1.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. What gives? Am I a hypocrite?

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Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Language doesnt matter Complex web applications can be built in just about any programming language, and its not really the language that is so important as the frameworks that are available. These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. framework was built.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Hackersshould do this even if they dont plan to start startups, because its the only real way to learn how to program. Thats nonsense.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. I have had a programming job and tried to do side projects after work/ weekends.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84