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Are You A Necessity Entrepreneur? Ask These 7 Questions

YoungUpstarts

They aren’t operating on big bankrolls of venture capital (at least initially), and they don’t have trust funds to fall back on if the business fails. The software exists, and you add users. Yes, there are scaling costs like customer service and bandwidth, but they are very different from opening a chain of bookstores.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. This reduces network bandwidth issues and eliminates latency issues. The sum of these feels like buzzword bingo. Classic Computers- Hardware.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

The develop in-house side would point to the existing investment in staff talent. If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application? There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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How SaaS + Mobile has changed our world.

Scalable Startup

But more importantly, the labor of moving software around by humans and physical media and even the Internet has been taken down to almost zero. The software just doesn’t leave it’s cloud hosts anymore. This saves energy, mistakes, cost, time, client computer memory and bandwidth. It vastly reduces computer waste.

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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses – [link].

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window.

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