Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 13, 2020 Imagine VR/AR/MR systems that truly understand how users think and feel. One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Looxid Labs is working on that, serving VR companies in gaming, healthcare, commerce, and education. What’s your top goal for Looxid Labs in 2020?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Users can share UGC / UCC via social media platforms, forums, comments, reviews, and open-source sites like Wikipedia. UGC also soared in the first quarter of 2020, amid the global pandemic that disrupted our lives. Social media-fuelled the rise of the UGC. It is currently the leading social media platform.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. —– Indie.vc

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While Ethereum based DeFi has stolen the show for most of 2020 – and rightly so, the amount of innovation and experimentation happening there is insane! The market for mobile gaming is insanely large and growing quickly: >$77B in 2020 with >10% YoY growth. Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut.

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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 2020, it was announced they’ll acquire Deliv : These acquisitions gave them new technologies, a fresh user base, and the transportation logistics that made them a success.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In my experience, the costs and risks of a lifestyle business continue to come down, as websites, social media, smartphone apps, open source tools, and customers via the Internet become more and more the norm. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/23/2020.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Much like we’ve done with our past classes; – the Lean LaunchPad which became the National Science Foundation I-Corps (taught in 98 universities) and Hacking For Defense (taught in 40 schools,) – our goal is to open source this class to other universities.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

In a world where Gartner predicts that 75% of new applications supporting digital businesses will be built not bought by 2020″, you can see why Mulesoft’s integration platform helps Salesforce future proof itself and embed itself in a future where developers rule. The Pivotal Story and Digital Transformation.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 26, 2021

We ended up doing three more investments in April 2020 ( our busiest month ever ) and a total of 12 investments over the past year (our busiest 12-month period ever). A little bit more than a year ago, we made our first investment in a COVID world…it was 100% virtual, all via Zoom from start to finish.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

In late 2020, Facebook announced that it would cease to support Flash-based games. Open source, permissionless code. After years of conceptualizing, designing, and building immersive worlds–not to mention investing an immense amount of capital–developers can turn a game off at any moment. . Consider FarmVille.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

That would drop the total price under $10,000 by 2020, a reasonable luxury car option. In sum, we already see some limited assistive capabilities now, and should see partial self-driving capabilities around 2017, available as expensive options, with full autonomous capability around 2020, still at a significant cost.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For example, Airbnb alumni Riley Newman raised $55M for Wave Capital , to invest in Airbnb alumni following the anticipated IPO for the company in 2020, according to this NYT article. Notably didn’t: – Uber – AirBnB – Bytedance – WeWork – Unity – — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) February 8, 2020.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In addition, the availability of cloud and open source technologies has further reduced the cost to get a technology business started as now anyone can get computing and storage capacity in the cloud or build a LAMP stack for a few hundred dollars.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 Winding Tree has created the world’s first open marketplace for travel. What is your top goal for Winding Tree for 2020? 2020 is a milestone year as we launch groundbreaking new solutions that will radically transform travel commerce.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 7, 2020

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. . This new stack of financial services enables stable coins (e.g. Maker ), lending (e.g. Compound ), derivatives (e.g. Opyn ), insurance (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. But the coincidence is that 10 years out will be 2020 and it’s when we look back from that date I’m certain that people will find a Facebook monopoly a bit laughable. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Encouraging and supporting a career in tech continues to be a key focus in Singapore, with the government announcing a $120m fund to prepare and develop Singapore talent for 30,000 new ICT jobs by 2020. Aspiring creatives can share their work or projects on open source platforms such as Behance or Dribble. Keep learning.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

— therealkiyosaki (@theRealKiyosaki) April 15, 2020. You could say that 2009-2020 were Bitcoin’s shadow years, just as 1970-1990 was that era for email. 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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sourced via @SullyGnome. pic.twitter.com/on8RQtEeB9 — Zach Bussey (@zachbussey) August 18, 2020. They might flock to new, open source solution, to reduce platform fees and increase their share. There are still many challenges for creators. Trend to watch : free or lower fee creator tools.

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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. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

His forecast was the most aggressive to date – and even he overestimated the 2020 cost by >2x. . One thing I really love about Camus is that it’s built on open source standards. Take a look at this solar cost chart from Ramez to see the International Energy Agency’s projections vs. his own vs. what actually happened.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

It’s an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. If you missed out, your next chance will be in the spring at CXL Live 2020 near Austin, Texas. This affects UX, quality score, cost per click , and ad rank. Quality score affects your CPC. What is a lighthouse? It has audits for: Performance.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020). Steven Tomlinson, received national press as one of the first out couples both teaching in a major university’s MBA program. As the third U.S.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Five years ago, the open-source Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) project was started to create software to enable a new type of wiki-based environment based on these principles. Search Monkey) and Google (Google Rich Snippets) are utilizing semantic markup to improve search results and more easily index key data on the web.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Tell us a little bit about how the company was founded and what you thought you were going to spend 2020 working on. Eric Ries : Have you or has the City of LA open sourced this playbook of what are the complementary pieces that have to get done to make a lab like this effective? So, what were you doing before the pandemic?

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