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Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

40 Official Government Agency Websites for Design Inspiration | SpyreStudios – [link] crowdspring.co/WzjmOt. 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications | Datamation – crowdspring.co/1yevQN7. Good long read on the history of Motorola | Chicago magazine – crowdspring.co/1nQMcBM.

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

It is the focus for state and federal governments worldwide, many finding ways to reward innovators with tax incentives or investors with tax credits to finance innovative new enterprises. And innovation is what creates value. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers. My experience describing innovation.

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

It is the focus for state and federal governments worldwide, many finding ways to reward innovators with tax incentives or investors with tax credits to finance innovative new enterprises. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers. And millions of innovators are at work extending these capabilities.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Thematically our new investments include 5 infrastructure/dev platforms, 3 security, and 2 SaaS; 4 are using some form of AI or machine learning; geographically 4 are in NYC, 3 Bay Area, 1 Canada, 1 Chicago. geographically 2 in NYC, 3 Bay Area, 1 Canada, 1 LA, 1 Chicago. Abstraction layers and avoiding vendor lock-in are huge.

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Intro to Blockchain: Why You Can’t Miss Out

The Startup Magazine

Fintank , the Chicago-based Fintech facilitator, recently hosted the Fintank Blockchain Summit in Chicago. Blockchain is primarily in its infancy stage with developers, enterprises, governments, and investors all scrambling to determine where they want to be in the development process. Fintank Blockchain Summit Welcome.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. I was blown away by my visit to Chicago’s 1871 building that has set aside 50,000 square feet for tech startups. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. Frankly, I wish LA had one.

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

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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