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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

In addition, the availability of cloud and open source technologies has further reduced the cost to get a technology business started as now anyone can get computing and storage capacity in the cloud or build a LAMP stack for a few hundred dollars.

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Why Venture Capital is the Perfect Fit for Me

Version One Ventures

I was inspired by the ability to create products from openly accessible datasets and open source tools, and how this can empower anyone, located anywhere, at anytime, to make a difference. P.S. Follow me on Twitter , connect with me on LinkedIn , or find me on the field playing Ultimate Frisbee in Palo Alto and San Jose.

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Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

WordPress has impressive traction for an open-source tool, but it’s orders of magnitude less prevalent than it is today, so I can’t find customers in droves like we now do. And I’m in Austin, not San Jose, where there’s 100x fewer customers I could land at meetups. circa 2008.)

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

And we had people doing that, both in Africa and in San Jose. Our educator community valued ongoing, recurring opportunities to collaborate and open source ideas and tools – validated. And with Hacking for the community in Hawaii and going out to rural areas. A big thanks to Jerry Engel of U.C.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. San Jose, CA. However, I needed to actually build it! My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it.

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OpenID, One Year Later - Blog – Stack Overflow

blog.stackoverflow.com

This leads to challenges for us, but fortunately we have an excellent dialog with Andrew Arnott , the primary author of the open source DotNetOpenAuth library we use. There are certainly challenges, and although I am open to alternative login mechanisms, particularly for Stack Exchange , I’m still bullish on OpenID.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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