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Excellent story by (@mojombo) Tom Preston-Werner at Startup School 2010. How github was built without private founding.

(Source: tom.preston-werner.com)

Reblogged 2 months ago from pablojimeno

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Infographics: Who are the Entrepreneurs?

turncliff:

I’ve always said that it’s better to give entrepreneurship a try while you’re still young…

Infographics: Turncliff: Startup Bubble 2.0?

This really seems like a new “startup bubble”… well, internet startups. Today is easier than ever to build web applications, cloud services, social applications, etc… The technology is there, at the reach of everyone, for simple Ruby on Rails, to more sophisticated Java and Scala frameworks…. Yes, it’s a bubble, and when it explodes, it will change the landscape on internet businesses. Many will die, many others will survive.

From turncliff:See the infogaphic

Reblogged 5 months ago from turncliff

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In what doing a PhD is like starting-up a business.

Many people think that scientists (those little PhD students) don’t quite fit to be an entrepreneur. Scientists are too rigid, have no business experience, and an idealistic view of the world (which is quite true). Well, I have a different perspective regarding scientists’s entrepreneurial skills. I think that scientists and particularly PhD students have a lot of potential to become great entrepreneurs (holding myself a PhD). Let me show you why. There are several points where entrepreneurship compares with doing a PhD:

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