2000 Developer Distribution Open Source 
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. I know I’m going on-and-on.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.
The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2023
One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.
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