VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2010

W ith the explosion of ecommerce, open source ecommerce solutions such as Varien’s Magento, are gaining the attention of startups and established industry players. Similar to Wordpress, Magento has an active open source community, developing extensions and plugins for free.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

Since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the number of IPOs hasn’t recovered to even 1980s levels. For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. How bad is it?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. Other Beijing ecosystem issues I heard about were the things we take for granted: the lack of knowledge sharing (“ pay it forward ” isn’t part of the culture,) limited mentoring (few experienced mentors,) and a lack of open source education, and no AngelList model.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! You can also look for CTO consultants in the same places you’ll find a lead developer: local technology user groups or meetups, conferences, and online communities (especially open-source software communities).

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Twelve years later, I think there is some wisdom in hiring people who have made significant contributions to an open source community project. But the availability of code for review is one just minor reason why I like to see open source experience on a résumé. Copyright 2001-2011 Eric Sink. All Rights Reserved.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup is Really Like, and more… → My Report on StackOverflow DevDays Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Closing Thoughts It’s easy to forget the impact of face-to-face contact.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. I discussed it in my post on the topic linked above. ** One small note: many VCs who got into the industry in 2001 or later have never seen a “carry&# check. We all know that.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. Other Beijing ecosystem issues I heard about were the things we take for granted: the lack of knowledge sharing (“ pay it forward ” isn’t part of the culture,) limited mentoring (few experienced mentors,) and a lack of open source education, and no AngelList model.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or Gimp, or the 1000s of other open source projects, built for free by software engineers. Perhaps are looking in the wrong field, since you have never even heard of open source development before? Reply Delete cakesy Aug 15, 2010 05:36 PM This is hilarious, software engineers do not work for free? Newer Post. Older Post.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

”), but the original 2001 iPod itself had nothing to do with the internet. Granted, Apple has the marketing clout to make almost any product successful no matter what it’s called, but they didn’t have quite that reach when they named the iPod in 2001. Still, it worked , because it was a really nice gadget.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software. The combination of the Internet and open source transformed the functionality in modern programming tools, increasing developer productivity 10 fold. Much better.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Yeah, the roots of CrossFit were, it was an open source community that started on the internet, first and foremost. Matt Scanlon: Most certainly. So, by nature it was wild west.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 5, 2003

” We did not get very far with that vision as the supply chain market dissolved along with the rest of the software industry in 2001. This kind of net service will be what justifies the huge investments in B2B infrastructures and technologies such as XML.”

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. Startup #4: Github. How’d they do it?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

For the first time since 2001, PC sales were lower that they were the previous year. Fork , a open source CMS, is a good example of a responsive web that has a highly visible value proposition for mobile visitors. 2012 was a milestone year in the consumer devices market. In addition, Nielsen reports that 55% percent of U.S.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. The community they had developed was extremely valuable and is what differentiated StackOverflow from the free, open source alternatives that were created in response to StackExchange. Jeff Atwood had a community of people built up from his blog.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

You can already see from Michael’s graph above that from 1973 to 2001 the US share was diminishing as India and China were growing rapidly. The last graph is quite interesting as it relates to us technology folks. We have always thought of India and China as places to offshore low-level development work.

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