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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 16:54) Jen discusses making open source tools. (19:16) She, by the way, was busy on social media.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. Now she’s on it every day!

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. They analyzed 8,529 Kickstarter projects and found seven types of updates: Social Promotion – Encouraging people to spread the word on social media.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. Blogs were part of the shift to a more intimate, frenzied, and on the go media landscape.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? This is the blog post I needed to read.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Media Temple. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). Social Media Tracking/Marketing. Domains.Co.