Software By Rob
AUGUST 11, 2009
At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. One of the most popular frameworks in those days were PHP-Nuke and Zend, that was tightly coupled with PHP programming language. A look at how CMS evolved.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.
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. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. Thank you for the kind introduction.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.
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. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup. You can see the design of the program here. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. Halling said.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
62 
Let's personalize your content