Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

When outsourcing, remember that lawyers are like VCs…it matters less who’s name is on the front door than who you work with. Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). Again…another nobrainer unless you’re LegalZoom.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Last week LinkedIn reminded me that it’s been 9 years since I started VC Cafe (Dec 2005). Whether it’s open source legal documents , A/B testing tools or finding office space, this list of tools even got nice recognized as a valuable resource by Steve Blank.

Cambodia 60

Cambodia Venture Capital Nepal India 60

BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2006

It seems that the open source business model has been top of mind for many in the technology industry as of late. Secondly, just because Red Hat’s name is on it does not mean that CIOs will immediately change their buying decisions. Isn’t this the antithesis of what open source stands for?

Open Source 60

Open Source Architecture Retention Revenue 60

Diego Basch

MAY 19, 2012

In 2005 I started a search consulting business named Flaptor, which would later become known as IndexTank. It should be noted that LinkedIn is a great workplace: fast-paced work, cool products, tons of open-source software, great vision, meaningful mission (and even fantastic food!). Hope you’ll understand!

Open Source 72

Open Source Software Search Leadership 72

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%. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

The background on i2b2 is that a few years ago the NIH invested something like $20 million into developing an open sourced platform that solves a major problem faced by hospitals (and medical researchers) which is that existing hospital information systems (“HIS&# ) were not designed for search. compared to release 1.3

Search 28

Search Database Open Source Boston 28

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

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. Pick a witty name for your blog and buy the domain. In picking a name, don’t paint yourself into a corner (for example, SeriesA.com is not as good as Altgate). Use WordPress.

XML 44

XML RSS Widget Analytics 44

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The key to understanding Lean Startup is to recognize two things: Lean Startup techniques confer maximum benefit in the upper-right quadrant, namely high market uncertainty coupled with fast cycle time. It is written by Ronald Mannak, who is currently the CEO of a startup named Yobble. What follows are solely his opinions.

Continuous Deployment 164

Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164

mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

And if you have been using a fictitious business name, you’ll need to file an abandonment form. How to Register Your New Business Name. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc. Become a fan on Facebook.

LLC 68

LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Up to 2005 they were the only solution supported by all major browsers at the time. A sensible naming scheme is vital for CSS frameworks. Responsive Grid System by Denis LeBlanc was the first of two named “Responsive Grid System.” His name isn’t Angus Droll, you morons. First Name. Old school.

Framework 54

Framework HTML Software Review Widget 54

mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Anyone can easily run a search for his or her brand name and see how actively it’s being discussed in social media. Try using a few search Google operators, for example: ["brand name" -intitle:"brand name"] to find in-text brand mentions you are most likely to have missed. Open Source Lists. Identity Lists.

Social Media 108

Social Media Analytics Media API 108

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

JANUARY 13, 2012

Hackers Steal User Names and E-Mails from Zappos and 6PM.com. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc. Tina Fey Photobombs the Golden Globes. Facebook IPO Hitting in Late May [REPORT]. Jobs by Simply Hired.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Don’t leave any section blank. Include numbers. Focus on traction.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Even if this kind of coverage seems tangential, it gets the name of your company in the media and helps to build buzz. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. October 10, 2011 14:12:16. Flag this comment.

PR 103

PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars. Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. How’d they do it? Startup #4: Github. How’d they do it?

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name. This article is the second in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Wednesday, we discussed why your startup’s name matters , and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing and buying domains. But how do you actually create a name? Like Tweet. Like Tweet.

Naming 104

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 104

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! WOW, I hate the name. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Title Tags: Still put your most important keyword first in your title tag, but make sure you have your brand name in there, too.

Algorithm 93

Algorithm Technical Review San Francisco SEO 93

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 18, 2012

And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? My team would like to sell a simple concept with intangible assets (domain names, copyrights, etc.) Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Open Source Bee Hives. I am a mom of three, a wife and an entrepreneur who started coaching other business owners how to be successful and have a pretty awesome life about 2005 is when I started doing that. History of Nike – BusinessInsider.com. The “Internet of Things” (IoT) – (22:06). Peter: Fantastic.

Internet 60

Internet Marketing Lean Small Business 60

kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just please make my name in your post clickable :). Name: Email (will not be displayed): Homepage: Comment preview: Follow. open-source-software(14). visual-studio-2005(10). If you create a bitcoin account, I would give you a +1 (actually 0.1 bitcoins is what I can afford right now). Cheers, Ron. Statistics.

Technology 40

Technology Architecture Startup .Net 40

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Why Your Startup’s Name Matters. This article is the first in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Thursday, we’ll discuss creating names, and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing names. Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Like Tweet.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. As a language, its inelegant. Every other system Ive seen has some drawback like this.

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? Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Seed Startups.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53