SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In the early stages of every technology, the market is usually dominated by products built for early adopters who are typically tech savvy – this mainly consists of developers who like to have full control over a product and its features. 3 rd decade (2010): New generation of CMS targeting a wider market.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

Technical Cofounder 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. How did you find your first customers and hit important, early milestones?

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

it's up to the Board or CEO) One or more financial metrics Balanced scorecard For very early stage startups (e.g. ← 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results More “Open Source&# Legal Tools → Comments are closed.  But today I got an interesting question the answer I wanted to share here.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Looking back seven years later, I’m immensely proud and satisfied with the impact Techstars has had on the world of entrepreneurship, especially at the early stages of company creation, and look forward to our goal over the next seven years of building the most powerful and connected early stage startup network in the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

09/02/2010. I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance.  Posted by: Dam00n | 09/16/2010 at 02:51 PM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tips for helping you get you there include: Have a good website to serve as your business’s online hub (ideally, one with an Open-source CMS that’s feature-rich and offers the opportunity to take advantage of integrations, such as those for SEO and social media). You should handle everything yourself in the beginning.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application. in 2010, I gradually saw that among our weaknesses we were very strong in E-Commerce, Fashion Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Content Communities, dynamic sexy websites and it was all based on varieties of PHP/LAMP. What is Drupal?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Ycombinator open source term sheet is a good start for Seed deals. and I'll accept) 5 Comments • Nov 1, 2010 Thanks, Ty. Mark Suster • Nov 1, 2010 Here is a post on Brad Feld's blog on the seed financing docs he found, some of which you mention: [link] chives/. David Shen • Nov 1, 2010 Whoa!

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). In an early stage company, extensive reps and warranties are probably unnecessary.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Reply Tony Karrer says: January 22, 2010 at 9:24 am I’ll be posting about this. says: August 18, 2010 at 9:01 pm [.] Reply Was muss ein CTO tun?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Industry change allows the entry of newer players at earlier stages – It doesn’t take as much money to launch a startup anymore. You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. We all know that.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Bekkers and Wiepking (2010) examined why people donate to charities. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Bekkers and Wiepking (2010) analyzed over 500 studies on charitable giving. So you might be paying higher costs with those projects too. The problem?

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a result, we’ve seen both the rise of open-source networks leading to startups (a la Gitlab and Hashicorp, among others), as well as Docusign- and Slack-inspired freemium models designed to grow within groups at companies.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

5th November 2010. #. Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. New Web Order. Finding a Technical Co-Founder. My own anecdotal evidence indicates that the number of tech startups being founded is on the rise again.

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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%. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. Today’s Normalization.

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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.” All the energy and enthusiasm for ed tech is translating into dollars.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

With some of the recent high cap notes that we have seen in 2010 and 2011, I predict that the mis-alignment of incentives will still be an issue in cases where those caps don’t kick in. To the contrary, a *good* board (at least in the early stages) acts as the CEO’s personal shrink. Where are you going?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc. Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

« Launch48 last weekend Posted by Aidan, 20 th January 2010. These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0   That said, I think this quote accurately captures the life-cycle of creating a simple set of documents for early stage investment. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is applicable to other subscription businesses such as Open Source.) Comments By David Skok – January 31, 2010 Yoav Shapira The way you describe peeling back one layer at a time reminds me of the "5 Whys" process that Toyota invented and Eric Ries ( StartupLessonsLearned.com ) always talks about. All rights reserved.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2. Yair Margolin: Php, MySql (built for scalability on servers) and open source (you can add any API very quickly abd it’s also cheap). VC Cafe: What led you to start BizMe2? We can help them.

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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. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The rise of CVC volume is well documented (see post on VC Cafe), but what’s less discussed is funds started by mature startups or “new corporates” These are funds launched by venture backed companies to deploy capital into early stage startups innovating in their space. “Mature” startup funds.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150