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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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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Understanding of relevant laws, regulations and information security best practices. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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The IPO Market: Is Larry Bird Walking Through that Door?

Growthink Blog

Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. By 2010, that percentage had declined to a mere 3%. companies went public. For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did.

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UT Austin MSTC Commencement Speech

Austin Startup

I could download mp3 music for free from Napster, but most of the software I wanted was not open source yet and had to be purchased. The only way to get free software was to apply for beta programs, which were not open to the public back then and usually required that you sign an Non-Disclosure Agreement. I had no costs!

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software. Approximately $90 billion has been invested by the venture capital industry from 2008-2010—less than half of the 1998-2000 level.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. We officially launched in early 1996.

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