September 2010
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DVCS Battle Heats Up - Bitbucket Joins Atlassian →
Atlassian announced their acquisition of BitBucket today, in the process placing a large bet on Mercurial as a viable player in the DVCS space. In my opinion, Mercurial is a great alternative to Git, with similar functionality and performance for 1/10 the learning headache, particularly for developers coming from SVN. I think this is a wise move by Atlassian and allows them to compete head on...
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Hardware Startups & Angel Investing
As the barriers to entry decrease, hardware start-ups are surging in number. What use to take $10M, $25M, or $100+ million in capital investment to get off the ground 10 years ago can be accomplished for less than one million today, allowing smaller scale entrepreneurs (Roku, FitBit, LiveScribe, etc) to dip their toes in hardware waters once dominated by large corporations with enormous...