Portability Pledge – A first draft for TheStartupBus

March 9th, 2010 admin

The Startup Bus to SXSW Interactive 2010 is now rolling south by southeast. “12 strangers will board a bus in San Francisco. At 60 miles an hour and over 48 hours, they will conceive, build and launch 3 tech startups in time for a SXSW party in Austin.” Can you bootstrap a company and squeeze in a decent portability policy? The Bus startups will try. The DataPortability Project wants to make your …


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