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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Open source and crowdsourcing principles are well understood: When you get enough talented people working on a problem, especially in an open way, progress comes quickly. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open. Then AI will really take off. (If

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? Massive proprietary databases? I dont think so. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

Or even contribute to an open source project. This is a relatively slow method, however, depending on how quickly you can connect with someone. But such a connection can be long-lasting and meaningful. Learn to write code yourself. Then go to hacker events and developer meetups.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.