Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2020

It’s more or less the same story we saw with CryptoKitties back in 2017. Its benefits are too big: fairer rates via cutting out middlemen, global access via trustless smart contracts, and composability via open source, auditable code. A promising use case with insufficient infrastructure. Perhaps Ethereum 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2017.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Monday, May 8: Grimoire Con 2017 North America This conference shows GrimoireLab updates, use cases and practical workshop/s for developers, community managers, project managers, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

WordPress is one of the world’s greatest, if not the greatest, open-source platforms available. Being the world’s most popular open source platform, WordPress also comes with its security risks. What’s bang on trend for 2017 is personalisation and this will only get bigger. Optimise for Security!

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. The company unveiled its latest model in January 2017 at CES, offering the blind the ability to read and recognize faces. Javelin has just announced its $5M series A in February 2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 12/09/2017. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools. Where are you along this spectrum?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

In 2017 the SIP market size was $6.88 Their SIP trunks must work across all primary IP Gateways, IP PBX, and even open-source PBX projects that a client may be using. SIP trunking is the tech all businesses need to conduct real-time audio and video sessions between multiple parties. Compatibility.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

2023 was a rough year for Venture Capitalists and startups alike Plummeting deal volume (US down 40%, UK %50, Israel 60%) back to 2017 volumes. The 2023 open source generative AI survey by the Linux Foundation found that 41% of organisations expressed a clear preference for open-source generative AI technologies over proprietary solutions.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Enterprise tech in 2017: We are pumped about the NYC enterprise tech ecosystem! When you have local Fortune 1000 IT execs who are looking to buy innovative technology combined with NYC enterprise startups and west coast VCs and founders building a presence here, you get an amazing recipe for a killer 2017. SaaS 3.0 ?—?many

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Austin Startup

MAY 1, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 1, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Thursday, May 4: Longhorn Startup Demo Day (FREE) Come watch this year’s biggest entrepreneurial showcase of top undergraduate startup ventures from the Spring 2017 Longhorn Startup Lab!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The recognition that the United States is engaged in long-term strategic competition with the Peoples Republic of China and Russia became a centerpiece of the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy. Team 3: Open-Source AI Click here to see a summary of the presentation. Why This Class?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. MovingForward is an open-source directory that pools diversity, inclusion, and anti-harassment commitments from VCs.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Every time you build your application, you are likely to have some new bugs or incompatibilities related to a change in the language or the libraries (especially open source libraries). Your recent smartphone purchase is more likely to be replaced in 2017 by a smart watch, or smart eyewear, as it is by another smartphone.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In 2017, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave a prescient warning that “In just a few years, if we do not change the trajectory, we will lose our qualitative and quantitative competitive advantage.” This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives. All other code increasingly uses a ton of open source code. He mentions about 10 companies he’s involved in – let’s see what’s happened in the past year with them.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Technical debt happens from unexpected bugs and additional development work that results from using short-term solutions (like templates or open-source code). In 2017, Target acquired Shipt , a grocery delivery service. But no-code software can come with the added cost of technical debt. Integrations. The workaround?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m not sure where that rule comes from, but by that measure, we should see the first self driving cars on sale in 2017. Companies like Chris Anderson’s 3D Robotics have built, along with the open source community, the ArduPilot, a sub-$500 autopilot for unmanned drones.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2017

A few months ago, I wrote that 2017 could finally be the year when cryptocurrencies start delivering on the huge potential that many have been predicting for a long time. We’re seeing new use cases, such as decentralized storage, decentralized prediction markets, and the ability to monetize software/open source.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: October 12, 2017 The last full day of activities at Austin Startup Week 2017 is October 12. 2017 looks to be even more awesome. How can you leverage open source data science tools to build your business? Last year, more than 50 companies and 6,000+ registered crawlers participated.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 7, 2020

The huge ICO run-up in 2017 brought a lot of attention to the vertical. The most exciting part about DeFi is its open source nature and built-in composability: the ability to remix and recombine “money legos” unlocks a tremendous amount of creativity and innovation. . Maker ), lending (e.g. Compound ), derivatives (e.g.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 20, 2019

In the ICO bubble of 2017, nearly every crypto project introduced a token (often for fundraising purposes only). If the underlying platform acts mostly like an open-source software library but “states” are not stored on the protocol level (e.g. That answer most likely depends on the nature of the protocol.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

percent in 2017 to total $10 billion. Not to mention they need to align themselves with the open source communities defining them. Open source technologies—which are backed by the collaboration of a technically adept developer community and various partners—are particularly well suited to a continuous innovation model.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bitcoin fees reaching 2017 levels again ($>25) along with a new wave of impatient newbie traders eagerly awaiting deposit and withdrawal confirmations could easily force exchanges to prioritizing Lightning adoption. Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut. 6) Identity Issuance .

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Seed funds back to basics in 2019: We highlighted the barbelling of VC in the year-end 2017 update and see this continuing in 2019. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned. Either you’re a mega fund or an early stage fund, being caught in the middle is a place you don’t want to be.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 17, 2017

We’re seeing interesting new use cases built on top of cryptocurrencies and the new ability to monetize software and open source. That’s why we’re excited to announce our investment in Blockstack , an organization formed to push the Blockstack open-source protocol forward and make the new decentralized internet a reality.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 1, 2017

One innovation we have seen in Blockchain has been the rise of app coins as a way to monetize protocols and open source projects. In 2017 alone, ICOs raised more than $100 million in 15 deals. Most launches were through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), basically crowdfunded app coin sales. And boy, has it taken off!

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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).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Stanford University has been running a clinical trial on irregular heart rhythms for Apple since 2017 with a completion date in 2019. Apple filed two patents in 2017 to measure blood pressure by holding the watch against your chest. We’ve never had the ability to continually monitor a person’s blood pressure under stress or sleep.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Gartner expects mobile commerce to make up 50% of all ecommerce payments in the US by the year 2017 and Statista predicts that the volume of mobile payments worldwide will exceed $720 billion by the year 2017. Digital currency allows you to conduct financial dealings without a centralized bank controlling the transactions.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

The key to 2017 conversion is evolving your traffic dynamics and that starts with behavioral marketing. There’s no shortage of people proclaiming 2017 as the year of the chatbot. Image Source. He also shared an article that outlines an open source chatbot. Interactive Interfaces. Check it out here.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

As recently as 2017, when the Bolivar collapsed, many Venezuelans went on to adopt cryptocurrency for their transactions. RSK is the first open-source smart contract solution to have been built on Bitcoin’s network, and the platform has also rolled out powerful interoperability capabilities.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

By 2017, more than 50 percent of all IoT products will come from startups that are less than three years old ( Gartner ). The rise of global open source hardware platforms offers tools for creating lower-cost IoT hardware, but the industry falls short when it comes to support for distribution and market awareness.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Moov can provide the connective tissue (say, to port data into a new, flexible ledger) or the APIs for more reliable ACH payments, based on their open source libraries. This could allow banks to use a new core system for a new product, or to gradually improve their legacy infrastructure. There may be thousands of banks in the U.S.,

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Although they’ll likely fork Android, which is open source, for basic OS components, Snap doesn’t have anywhere near the level of cloud services footprint that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook do. 2016/2017 Spectacles — capture video on the glasses. Snap is not only out-resourced, but they must also play catch up.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation. As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business. Kushim manages your deal flow and track portfolio performance.

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