Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. My co-founders decided startup life wasn't for them. Open source projects like Arduino and SuperCollider make iterative hardware development cheaper and faster than ever.

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. Luckily we had a number of large paying clients that allowed us to sustain ourselves with a little extra cash from the founders and my fund. We bought that company in 2003 and invested some more capital.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. Slide.com.

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. Luckily we had a number of large paying clients that allowed us to sustain ourselves with a little extra cash from the founders and my fund. We bought that company in 2003 and invested some more capital.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. Can it be self-directed?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Starting as a tool for one of the founders to update his portfolio, co-founders Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson launched a self-funded, $12 per month plan in 2007, alongside their established free plan. Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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BeyondVC

APRIL 26, 2004

million of revenue in 2003 with a net loss of $4.1 Robertson, our founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, as payment in full of all remaining outstanding amounts under a revolving line of credit. It will tell us whether or not speculation will run rampant again. As you know, I do find Linux on the desktop intriguing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By then the open-source movement had really developed. We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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