This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management. I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. That was the year Twitter took off.

Louisville 102

Louisville Term Sheet Kentucky Ukraine 102

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 25, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Flowplayer – open source flash video player that allows you to customize the player for your embedded video and create a branded player – a step up from simple YouTube embeds for serious video experience. .

Small Business 57

Small Business Marketing Widget Flash 57

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

Open Source 107

Open Source San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 107

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. “It’s not been a difficult sell.&# All Rights Reserved.

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

BeyondVC

JANUARY 7, 2005

" That’s been a pretty focusing statement for us over the years, and as we enter the new year, you should expect 2005 to be one in which we place an ever heightening focus on our dialog with the community, and the developer community in particular. Enter the web and the open source movement.

Sales 60

Sales Developer Open Source Early Stage 60

Altgate

DECEMBER 27, 2008

One example is my long time friend and attorney, Robert Chow, who just launched GrowthStage and has joined the open source law movement. WordPress is open source so they tend to play nice with other companies, particularly the widget makers. I did my first post in 2005 and my second post in 2007. Use WordPress.

XML 44

XML RSS Widget Analytics 44

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

By the way, my friend Jed Christensen has a killer blog post on 37signal’s financials where he walks you through how he reverse engineered their numbers. You know you have a killer product when people start ascribing emotions to it. development framework and write a book. .]…

Ruby 47

Ruby Offshore Framework Venture Capital 47

mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. Meanwhile, some of the web’s best-known companies increased their presence in New York City — likely bringing investor money and capable engineers with them. Open Source Lists.

New York City 83

New York City New York Startup Social Media 83

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Education is a strong indicator of your likelihood to start a company.

San Francisco 99

San Francisco New York City Social Media Entrepreneur 99

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO]. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc. World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. Trending Stories. Jobs Lists.

LLC 68

LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. I found the perfect person at the department of Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. What follows are solely his opinions. Better yet, he plays drums.

Continuous Deployment 164

Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164

mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

The name I chose is scovry and the website ( [link] ) that it goes to is a social media based search engine that displays results in a “spy” type format. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc.

Naming 97

Naming Social Media Social Network RSS 97

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Starting in 2005 with 300 attendees from a variety of backgrounds (research, academia and entrepreneurs), this past conference had 1200 attendees from large enterprises, government and a lot more startups and entrepreneurs. This includes the semantic web, text analytics, natural language processing and reasoning engines.

Semantic 86

Semantic Web Wiki Guatemala 86

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

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. By 2005, it became clear that more people were reading GigaOm than they were reading my then employer, Business 2.0.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, Unify is published under a dual open source license (MIT and Apache version 2.0) Sourcebits has engineered over 200 apps to date, with plenty more to come. and it uses PhoneGap, Adobe Air, Sass and the quooxdoo JavaScript framework. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

Developer 93

Developer HTML API Ruby 93

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

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

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

That’s how search engines know what your site is about. It’s our direct connection to the search engine giant itself, and it can give us a wealth of information about how Google is reading our website. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

Algorithm 93

Algorithm Technical Review San Francisco SEO 93

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Sourcebits has engineered over 200 apps to date, with plenty more to come. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iPhone , Android and more.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Specifically, MySpace were driven by bad business decisions (like using a 3rd party package for its core functionality - the social engine), and bad management and leadership (it is owned by an old-media corporation, which is a firm believer in pre-web2.0 blog-engine(18). open-source-software(14). visual-studio-2005(10).

Technology 40

Technology Architecture Startup .Net 40

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Pinterest is probably the best tool for this, given its robust database of high-quality images, but you can also use e-commerce sites like Etsy or a simple image search on one of the major search engines. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

Naming 104

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 104

Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Last year, I spent a lot of time attempting to reverse engineer  this data based on a small personal sample size. So I think this is a brilliant step toward " open source law " which I've been advocating for a while.    Building that must have been crazy. Bookmark the permalink.

Term Sheet 52

Term Sheet Intellectual Property Venture Capital Hawaii 52

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. 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.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc. Holiday Lists. Identity Lists. Jobs Lists. Maps Lists.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Excellent article. Enough about that.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? High Quality, and open sourced! Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Methodology.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53