I have a few ideas I’d like to pursue but I need programmers. I imagine many of the people in your lab also do side gigs for money, is there any way I could reach the collective programmers at your lab.

I’m looking for a programmer who is skilled in PHP, Python and is comfortable working with google API’s..

If anybody reading this is interested and local to NYC respond to the comment with your email.

Thanks!

With the dissemination of open source, technology becomes commodity and entrepreneurs are able to shorten development and time-to-market cycles. Consequently, the basis of value creation migrates from back-end product development towards front-end customer development. Perhaps more than before, it is not the strength of the technology itself, but its application and capacity to meet with customers’ needs that makes competitive edge.

Yet, I question whether such open source-based entrepreneurship contributes back to the community. Whether the argument is “we give back when we grow big”. If entrepreneurs that are using open source gives back from the start, success or not, open soruce would evolve even more – to the general and the following entrepreneurs’ benefit.