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A Groupon For Sports? Crowd Seats Brings The Daily Deal Model To Sports Tickets
Daily deal sites, by and large, seem like they’re here to stay, much to Rocky Agrawal’s chagrin, surely. Whether or not you agree with Rocky’s flurry of posts last month about Groupon and its claque...
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Number Of Niche App Stores Has Doubled Every Year Since 2009
A new study from research2guidance shows that the market for apps is continually moving toward segmentation and niche stores. The Apple app store, which launched in July 2008, has contributed...
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Startup Rules of the Road
I met with two 20-something budding entrepreneurs this week, just by chance. I love working with and mentoring these young people. There is so much energy and hope to better themselves and make the...
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Startup Rules of the Road
I met with two 20-something budding entrepreneurs this week, just by chance. I love working with and mentoring these young people. There is so much energy and hope to better themselves and make the...
View ArticleWhy and How People Use R
Compelling lecture by John Cook Abstract: R is a strange, deeply flawed language that nevertheless has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing user base. What about R accounts for its popularity in its...
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Apache OpenOffice Lagging Behind LibreOffice In Features
An anonymous reader writes “If you are looking for small niche features such as interactive word count, bundled report designer, or command line filtering etc – LibreOffice beats OpenOffice hands...
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Taking Your Startup Back to the Business Basics
Mentoring startups has a lot of benefits: It gives something back to the community and helps other entrepreneurs avoid some of the mistakes that you’ve already made. And it’s also a lot of fun to meet...
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Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives
theodp writes “Microsoft recently extended ‘It Just Works’ compatibility for Visual Basic 6 applications through the full lifetime of Windows 8, so VB6 apps will have at least 24 years of supported...
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How to Own Your Startup’s Niche
There are a lot of consumer-facing Web startups out there – maybe too many. Now that it’s easier, faster and cheaper to launch a Web business than ever before, entrepreneurs are under increasing...
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Jeff Bates On Niche Communities and Why Partisan News Is Normal
I recently sat down with one of our co-founders, Jeff “hemos” Bates, to talk about Slashdot’s 15th anniversary and the world of niche news. Because history was involved, Jeff had a lot to say about...
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