Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 25, 2011

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

BeyondVC

JUNE 16, 2009

They are empowered and can easily do their own Google search and download open source software or fill out a short registration form to trial a web-based app. I wrote about this instant gratification in 2006 and it is happening faster than ever. Buyers no longer want you to push software that they may or may not need.

Open Source 87

Open Source Software Search Web 87

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

I had the good fortune, I think it was about 2006, the folks at Automatic actually said, “You should be on WordPress.” WordPress is an open source project that was started by Matt Mullenweg leaving a comment on a blog.

Community 42

Community Framework Ruby Architecture 42

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. Isn’t this the antithesis of what open source stands for? JBoss and RHAT clearly seemed to be building their own middleware and open source stacks while at the same time claiming an open architecture.

Open Source 60

Open Source Architecture Retention Revenue 60

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 8, 2014

Since these investments were the result of a few years of analyzing the market and working with a few other portfolio companies in online education, we decided we would “open source” our thinking in the spirit of “hacking education.” At Upromise, Jeff saw firsthand how the spiraling cost of college was harming the middle class.

South America 55

South America America Cofounder Early Stage 55

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Myth #3: Standardized Docs = Open Source Law. “Open Source Law&# is a buzz phrase thrown around frequently, but what the legal profession is experiencing is more of an automation of various parts of the law practice… not the entire practice of law. Those that manage this feat will survive.

Delaware 49

Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 49

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Myth #3: Standardized Docs = Open Source Law. “Open Source Law&# is a buzz phrase thrown around frequently, but what the legal profession is experiencing is more of an automation of various parts of the law practice… not the entire practice of law. Those that manage this feat will survive.

Delaware 45

Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 45

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement. Memcached is an open source high-performance distributed memory object caching system intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. What will a 1-second delay cost you? Plug’n''play. #4

Conversion 131

Conversion Caching Hosting Analytics 131

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. In this article on stock photos , I described a study illustrating that power: “ Bateson, Nettle, & Roberts (2006) provided customers with an unsupervised ‘honesty box’ to pay for their lunch.

Campaign 48

Campaign Reputation Metrics Naming 48

Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

What’s clear though is that the multiples for 2007 are trending down from those of 2006… If you’re an entrepreneur out fundraising, you need to keep these multiples in mind. This year’s data focuses on one of the same two metrics used last year price/EBIT (no price/sales data was provided).

Valuation 28

Valuation Private Equity Open Source Equity 28

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. Before I started GigaOm (the company) in June 2006, I had never really worked for a startup.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology. Zebra Medical Vision was recently selected as one of the most Innovative AI companies for 2017 by Fastcompany. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io The company has no public URL yet.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

it was what the networks were selling before ‘behavioral’ got hot in 2006. Open Source Lists. Matt Gentile. remarketing is a new technique?! i think it was new about 8 or 10 years ago. July 10, 2012 09:40:07. Flag this comment. KevinHeung. Good article Curt. Identity Lists. iPhone Resource Lists. Jobs Lists.

eCommerce 101

eCommerce Software Review Technical Review Social Media 101

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. Founded in 2008, GitHub offers public and private source code hosting to companies and open source projects using either git or subversion. Startup #4: Github.

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Kaltura provides the world’s first and only Open Source Online Video Platform. Following a multi-million dollar investment in R&D and the successful development of a ready-to-market audience measurement application, TruMedia officially launched in September 2006. Kaltura - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. Long ago in October 2006 Google bought YouTube for a shocking $1.65 In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. Long ago in October 2006 Google bought YouTube for a shocking $1.65

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

open-source-software(14). Dec, 2006 (3). Nov, 2006 (9). Oct, 2006 (14). Sep, 2006 (11). Aug, 2006 (9). Jul, 2006 (5). Jun, 2006 (4). May, 2006 (6). Feb, 2006 (4). Jan, 2006 (3). activerecord(23). alt-net-israel(8). altnetuk(6). architecture(28). asp-net-2-0(39).

Technology 40

Technology Architecture Startup .Net 40

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Flash vs. HTML5: The "Pong" Version 37Signals Creates iPad-Only Web App An Open Source, HTML5 Framework for i. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. Code for America Chooses 20 Developer.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses. Seth Sternberg, MBA Class of 2006, blogging about how to do a startup, on TechCrunch. link] Jim Great article Seth.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

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

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Wix (founded 2006) – publicly traded in Nasdaq with a market cap of over $7 billion, Wix is hardly a startup. The mega grants are a way for Epic Games to back developers and companies using their Unreal engine. That said, the company made several venture investments in startups including Spike, Affogata and others.

Balance Sheet 201

Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20