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Intro to Blockchain: Why You Can’t Miss Out

The Startup Magazine

But the Fintank event brought together a far-reaching group of users, developers, and influencers to tackle the current and future state of this game-changing technology. Here are some takeaways on blockchain and its influence in today’s startup ecosystem. Startup Opportunities. What is Blockchain?

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Starting in 2005 with 300 attendees from a variety of backgrounds (research, academia and entrepreneurs), this past conference had 1200 attendees from large enterprises, government and a lot more startups and entrepreneurs. The US and UK government publish their data on the web as Linked Data.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

The Israeli government launched a plan to attract financial services sector firms to Israel in 2010 and is in talks with other international financial services companies that are considering opening financial research centers in Israel. Companies that open research centers in outlying areas of the country will enjoy higher subsidies.

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Four Lessons Innovators Can Learn From the ACA Failure

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Sound application development principles are well known in the IT community. I’m sure many people building this application did know — sadly, political matters trumped a consumer perspective, good design principles, and creative problem solving. Here’s my “BIG FOUR”: Prototype, prototype, prototype.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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