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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. I agree completely. link] Marco.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies. also, your website runs on apache, another open source project [link]. Have you ever tried Gimp? 17 Rico Marconi on 08.11.09

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,