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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Some food banks saw demand 3-4x normal, just as their volunteer base shrunk due to worries about COVID-19 infection. Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry.

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Software co-op/software reuse

BeyondVC

Lee Gomes from the Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting piece (sorry, not a free site) in his Portals Column about Project Avalanche which is essentially a software co-op for businesses to share their applications and code. If Detroit car makers can collaborate on research, why couldn’t U.S. technology users?”

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. After that, she used a combination of high-tech and low-tech to develop her idea. “I

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Software co-op/software reuse

BeyondVC

Lee Gomes from the Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting piece (sorry, not a free site) in his Portals Column about Project Avalanche which is essentially a software co-op for businesses to share their applications and code. If Detroit car makers can collaborate on research, why couldn’t U.S. technology users?”

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Twitter Link Roundup #81 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Why would people “save&# ads to review later? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Are you a student & love hacking software? Consider participating in Google’s Summer of Code 2011 – [link]. – [link].

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

This means constantly looking for improvements to our automation technology, using that automation more, and diligently pursuing excellence for each client’s dream website. This year we will hit our 100,000th person on experiential tours of Detroit and launch a new program that shares lessons learned with other leaders.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth. Backup Software.

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