Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 16:54) Jen discusses making open source tools. (19:16)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. If you can’t see the Helmsman 2-minute video click her.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Capital Factory at 7:00 pm. 79 entry fee.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 26, 2021

From the start, we have limited ourselves primarily to startups within North America, with a handful of exceptions: Nexus Mutual and Drover (UK), Guesser.com (Spain), and Headout (India). That means it’s probably time for us to revisit the geographical focus in our investment thesis.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Nationalisation of Technology Platforms: Big tech in America won’t just be split up – they may be acquired by the government and be redefined as national infrastructure – as we saw with railways. They will owned by the individuals (rather than a company), powered by open source software and backed up by machine learning.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 5, 2020

Unfortunately for the Valley (and North America in general), a few regions have embraced this approach with cryptocurrencies and we are seeing more and more crypto companies coming out of the UK, Malta, Singapore, Hong Kong and other jurisdictions that are more friendly towards crypto than the US or Canada are. .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Building Your Business on Open Source Data 10:00 am at Galvanize Featuring Data.world co-founder and CTO Bryon Jacob, this panel will explore the increasingly important role of open source data science in the startup economy. How can you leverage open source data science tools to build your business?

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

America is getting its risk-taking mojo back. Readily accessible, off-the shelf, open-source development tools COMBINED with the ability to launch a product extremely cheaply via creative social marketing makes it easy to build a big-time technology company these days without a lot of money.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link]. America is raising a generation of interns | The Week – [link]. A scientific guide to saying “no”: How to avoid temptation and distraction | Buffer Blog – [link].

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Several years ago on a Saturday I found myself at Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte. Hack on open source projects. I was attending the second National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Awards for Aspirations in Computing event. Write software for local businesses. And inspired.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or AmeriCorps. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities. Produce a repeatable model that can be used to launch other potential technology solutions.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

” Turning to solutions, the authors make a compelling case for an open-source approach to creating an immunization system for U.S. Washington would be better off following a more ‘open-source’ approach to information sharing. is following. “ WESLEY K.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

This makes me happy as part of our goal when we started TechStars was to “open-source” the mentor driven accelerator process. They are learning what made America what it is.” PBS Newshour has a neat eight minute segment on accelerators. TechStars is featured, along with several others.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or AmeriCorps. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities. Produce a repeatable model that can be used to launch other potential technology solutions.

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readwrite.com

JANUARY 25, 2013

Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and earned his juris doctorate at Stanford, where he focused on open source and other IP licensing issues. Matt Asay on Linkedin. comments powered by Disqus. startupcto

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

WordPress has impressive traction for an open-source tool, but it’s orders of magnitude less prevalent than it is today, so I can’t find customers in droves like we now do. And high-tech-America was in post-bubble recession with barely anyone at all who would actually pay a premium for WordPress-specific hosting.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps. Our goal is to open-source this class to other universities and create the 21 st Century version of Tech ROTC.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2010

Invest in America Alliance to Fund American Technology Companies, Create Jobs for College Grads – Intel wants to invest $3.5 Open-source term sheets, certificate of incorporations and more posted on Series Seed , a site created by by Marc Andreessen, First Round Capital and Fenwick & West attorney Ted Wang.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset. We work with leading colleges, universities and research institutes throughout North America and Europe to advance student entrepreneurship. RW : Tell me about Founder.org. Now I live on airplanes and the TGV train.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Congrats to Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Compvis, @runwayml @StabilityAI , everyone who participated and the whole open-source community. That’s why I’m excited about the rise of open source. We just crossed 1,000,000 downloads of Stable Diffusion on the @huggingface hub! Such a milestone!

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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%. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook.

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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.” The company now works with over half of all college students in America and growing rapidly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Many open source applications (i.e. When I left my post at VP of Marketing at Virgin America, I made a conscious effort to raise my profile and to build my network by blogging for online publications. Porter Gale is a start-up advisor, public speaker and former VP of Marketing at Virgin America. Build Your Online Profile.

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Altgate

APRIL 12, 2010

Birchbox ChickRx CleverBootz eight1six EverTrue FashionStake Friends For Sport OsComp Palliative Care of America RelayRides SIRTAP Therapeutics (watch the video to see their pitch at MIT) Smarter Hearing I found links to a few of the companies, but not all. Apparently there are 12 semifinalists (listed below). Bookmark the permalink.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

A large hotel chain wanted to solve this problem: 90k travelers are stranded every day in America across 5,145 airports. Before you graduate, try to write a paper about your research or release a piece of open source code. Let me bring some of this home by sharing an actual example from last year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, They have spent multiple summers putting on the “Tech Tour”– traveling around North America investing and speaking in tier II and III cities (excluding 2020). We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials. V2 structure. .

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. — Why This Course?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

It’s not mind blowing, it wont be muttered in households across america… but it’s something that works. For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework. And sure enough, after I actually got off my ass and started doing something a decent name came along. 27 Apr 10.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. Information Technology Association of America. Public Relations Society of America.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

These were the very same products that we are used to purchasing in malls and department stores here in the United States of America. The prices of these bottles in China for example (1.7OZ, 3.3OZ, 4.4OZ, doesn’t matter) were almost a third of the prices we are used to paying in the United States of America.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup. Please leave a comment and lets discuss!

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