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Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Newest source of entrepreneurial financing: the dole

From the VC grapevine comes word of a new innovation in startup funding in Portland (and elsewhere), Oregon: the unemployment department From http://www.oregon.gov/EMPLOY/UI/ui_special_programs.shtml#Self_Employment_Assistance__SEA_ The Oregon Self Employment Assistance (SEA) Program helps eligible unemployed workers set up a business on a full time basis and still receive full unemployment benefits.  … To qualify for the SEA [...]

One-click Unsubscribe: For ALL Your Emails

I sign up for (let’s call it) 5-10 new web sites a week. It’s an occupational hazard. (In fact, there’s an even weirder effect where sometimes there are web sites I know only from Webex demos or slide decks, and not from visiting the site itself. But I digress.) As a startup, you SHOULD be [...]

Technologies I want an excuse to use…

Cassandra, the Facebook-derived, neither-row-nor-column-oriented-quite, massively distributed data store. New hybrid languages that run atop Java VMs: Scala and Groovy. Hadoop.  Just ‘cuz. The R statistical computing system.