crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – [link]. Web Designers: A Guide To Using Custom Scrollbars On Your Site – [link]. Purple In Web Design: A New Trend? A Showcase of Watercolor in Web Design – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – [link]. Web Designers: A Guide To Using Custom Scrollbars On Your Site – [link]. Purple In Web Design: A New Trend? A Showcase of Watercolor in Web Design – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

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. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web. Thank you for the kind introduction.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Open source and crowdsourcing principles are well understood: When you get enough talented people working on a problem, especially in an open way, progress comes quickly.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. At least in the consumer & business web.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

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. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Lets start with the original list: Do you use source control ? This is still an essential practice, especially on the web. There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. Expo SF (May.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." " Web 1999/2000. LAMP, open source, Intel, clusters, JBOD. It is no wonder why VCs are quite excited about next generation web companies.

Web 60

Web API Open Source Business Model 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

According to Strangeloop , who tested the load times of the top 2,000 retail websites, web pages keep getting bigger, the average site takes 10 seconds to load. While Jakob Nielsen says people can handle up to 10 second load time , consider this: 47% of people expect a web page to load in two seconds or less. WebPageTest.

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Conversion Caching Hosting Analytics 131

semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. The Semantic Web standards - RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, and SKOS are new technologies whose proponents hope will be adopted on a wide scale. In the case of OWL 1.0,

Semantic 40

Semantic Web Technology HTML 40

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

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. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Collaboration & Workgroups Homecourt – Homecourt is a Web-based collaboration tool. WorkflowPerfect – A Web-based business process tool that facilitates collaboration. 280Slides – A free online presentation software that allows you to import existing documents, download to PowerPoint, publish to the Web and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

" The lowest friction sale can be a user clicking on a web page and the content owner getting paid for it. There are various grades of friction between these two extreme points like open source business models, software as a service, and reseller/OEM-type models as other forms of packaging and delivering a product/service.

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Sales Java Open Source Software Review 60

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

An attacker was able to create a malicious gem, cause the Rubygems web application to evaluate the metadata contained in it, and thereby compromise the Rubygems server infrastructure. For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. Great post.

Security 101

Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with. If you want to solve a technical problem, get a group together and do it as open source.”. #1 Learning from Failed Product Launches | Startup Web Guide says: April 22, 2011 at. [.]

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. Pricey, but based on my hourly rate it’s cheaper than the open source solution I used previously when you factor in upgrades, crashes, and manual workarounds for missing functionality.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications.

Private Equity 87

Private Equity Equity PHP 87

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22