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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

I spent a chunk of my career as a product manager in search (Shopping.com, GLG, Ask.com, AOL and Google) so I find this particularly interesting. Until now, to succeed in search companies needed two things: 1) an index of the web 2) an algorithm to organise the results.

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How To Get Your Web Development Career Started

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are a self-taught web developer or have spent a few years in college learning all of the basics and getting experience, you might be struggling to get your career started. A lot of very successful web developers are self-taught and have spent a lot of time doing research and trying out various codes and functions.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models.

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Shrewd Ideas For Effective Web Design

YoungUpstarts

Your web design has a huge impact on the number of prospects you convert to clients. To implement a plan for web design, you need to know how customers are using your website. The Platt College web design department explains that website design can include audio, video, text, graphics and animation. Website design factors.

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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. There doesn’t exist a web search API that has access to page content, parsed outlinks from the page, or even edit history.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” The web is dying and will be replaced by “the App Internet.” Enter the World Wide Web (WWW). As George appropriately describes in his video, the Internet and the Web are two different, but related things.

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Customer Development for Web Startups

Steve Blank

Ash Maurya , the CEO of WiredReach, has extended my work by building a model of Customer Development for Web Startups. Go read both of his posts on Discovery and Validation for web startups. Your startup is an organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. I think his process models are pretty good.