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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. Technical Support – a “debugging copilot” for the engineers currently working in technical support.

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Five Keys To Remote Business Success Every Founder Needs To Know In 2021

YoungUpstarts

Consider using premium paid or open source software whenever possible. Consider an IT support plan with at least quarterly systems assessments and live on-demand user assistance. Avoid installing any apps you don’t absolutely need on your computers or mobile devices.

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Ways To Make Your Website More Secure

YoungUpstarts

Most of these tools are created as open-source software programs, which mean their codes are easily accessible to both developers and malicious hackers. Your host should also offer ongoing backup data services and technical support. . Limit File Uploads. Allowing file uploads will automatically make your site vulnerable.

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source. We build our own WordPress plugins and make them open-source and free. After all, quality technical support requires an army of quality technical people, and those don’t come cheap.

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

Apple has attempted to get medical researchers to create new health apps by developing ResearchKit , an open source framework for researchers. China is plowing into this with government support, private and public funding, and a China FDA (CFDA) approval process that favors local Chinese solutions. What’s Not Working?

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. Twelve years later, I think there is some wisdom in hiring people who have made significant contributions to an open source community project. But a lot of people work on an open source project simply because they have a passion for coding.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

In a way, schools need to start thinking like companies built around the distribution of open source software companies. Instead of selling you software, open source companies acknowledge that the software is out there for free--but what you really need is support around that software.

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