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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

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We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. January 14, 2010 12:43 AM wesley chun said. January 14, 2010 12:43 AM wesley chun said. Wow, this sounds familiar.

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Marching through quicksand

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Your creators should always have a simple way to talk to current and potential customers in any segment. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

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2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online.

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Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? | Vinicius Vacanti

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September 27, 2010 | View Comments This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. But, since Yipit, an aggregator of all these services, involves more user interface / user experience challenges, it made more sense for us to teach ourselves so that we could iterate on the concept till we got it right.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. And I’m sure they won’t mind community college either. You don’t need many – one or two to begin. This is the blog post I needed to read.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur.