View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

Open source, permissionless code. Play-to-earn, on the other hand, solves this problem by optimizing a game’s baseline architecture to allow for seamless monetary transfer. Blockchain games offer a level of tangibility that has not been possible since the era of owning physical cartridges. Opaque markets are now transparent.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Every industry that requires humans to create original work—from social media to gaming, advertising to architecture, coding to graphic design, product design to law, marketing to sales—is up for reinvention. Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand.

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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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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). It’s also to the point where the best folks (particularly on the architecture area) seem to all be going independent, working as CTO’s for hire or in similar positions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 2, 2013

An Enterprise Mobile Reference Architecture. Building using Netflix’s Open Source Architecture (a 4 hour workshop). Using Swagger to Build a Great API Interface. The Pros and Cons of Choosing Go. Availability During Cloud Outages: Multi-Regional, Self-Healing MySQL.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. It was still a good trade.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue. Consider 2019 another year of blocking and tackling as the Fortune 500 continues their march to the cloud.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Simon Phipps Subscribe to this blog About Author Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is now at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. Follow me as @webmink on Twitter and Identi.Ca

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

By revolutionizing the enterprise computing market with the Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement. The transition from today’s web back-end architectures to tomorrow’s cloud computing will result in profound benefits.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Is the technology open sourced? Once again, check the blogs.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Many are already using open source (numbers range from 70–90% in certain tech stacks) and more and more Fortune 1000s are creating new positions like Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Digital Officer, etc., Abstraction layers and avoiding vendor lock-in are huge. Enterprise companies get more comfortable purchasing from startups.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” Because of significant performance benefits , we are initially supporting Oracle’s Cloud OCI, launching Molecula on March 26 at Oracle’s Open World Singapore. How will it work with Molecula?

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. I vividly remember the day that Scott Yara and Luke Lonergan came in to the room to tell us that we had serious problems and that we would have to start development over and scrap the old architecture for a new one.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They tend to have the knack for architecture. It seems to me like one way you could get around the problem is by hiring a consulting CTO who comes with their own pre-built reputation for technical excellence - a leader within the open source community for the technology you're using, for example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

One of the cofounders has been active on a mailing list for Asterisk , an open-source Linux-based PBX. . * The basic business model is a business-to-business service bureau (this from their website, and is consistent with what they told us in discussions). They want to build a big brand fast after they come out of stealth mode. *

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

Fractional CTO 40

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. I vividly remember the day that Scott Yara and Luke Lonergan came in to the room to tell us that we had serious problems and that we would have to start development over and scrap the old architecture for a new one.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The real power in WordPress came when they released the plug-in architecture, which basically allowed other developers to write little pieces of software that extends the functionality of WordPress. WordPress is an open source project that was started by Matt Mullenweg leaving a comment on a blog. They call them plug-ins.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. The CTO should always be looking for a better way to do things and inspiring the developers to do the same. David Schnurman , Lawline.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2018

the difficulty of getting people to adopt new open-source technology standards?—?turns We spent our first years online in a world defined by open protocols and intellectual commons; we spent the second phase in a world increasingly dominated by closed architectures and proprietary databases.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Architecture. The best part about Drupal is, its architecture allows for both core and integrated modules. Vidhatanand Sharma is an Open Source evangelist and has keen interests in personalized experience on the web. It also facilitates plenty of opportunities for site extension.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Enterprise Architecture (5). open source. Categories. Business (60). Consulting (2). Management (7). Startups (18). Entrepreneurship (1). ResumeEverywhere (3). Cloud Computing (5). Database (7). Education (6). General Technology (30). High Availability (3). Idea Factory (9). Marketing (12). Methodology (2). Mobile (3).

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Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Hadoop then emerged from the open source community and is now used by Yahoo, Facebook, and eBay, and is spreading into leading finance and telco companies. The legacy BI vendors don’t have the product architecture for Hadoop or Big Data and we believe this opens the door for a new franchise to be built.

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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.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 18, 2005

I have looked at a number of open source projects over the last year and mostly agree with Bill Burnham’s comments that many of these open source plays are "marketing gimmics for startup companies." Finally, open source does not matter if there is no customer need for the solution.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Instantly, a list of quotes appears on my screen: some delving into the neural architecture that triggers facial expressions, others exploring the evolutionary history of the smile, others dealing with the expressiveness of our near-relatives, the chimpanzees. It's the potential that Delicious never got to fulfill.

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Semantic New York City Curation Algorithm 99

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The blockchain and Arcadeum architecture we’re developing enables the future of gaming, where players benefit from truly owning their digital items, privacy, provable fairness, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. We founded Horizon Blockchain Games in January 2018.

CTO Hire 76

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2005

Enter the next area of the market, the open source players like Digium with Asterisk and Pingtel with SIPFoundry. Both of these companies are employing the open source model of letting customers download the product and upselling support and maintenance. Fast forward back to Avaya buying Nimcat.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For our metrics we mainly use Graphite , the graphing and analysis system open-sourced last year by Orbitz. This keeps us from having to hit our database too much. The RightAWS gem makes interacting with SimpleDB pretty easy. Our whole team is falling more in love with it every day.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 7, 2004

In the article, David surmises that the power of the open source movement is really the driver behind the deal. Open source’s influence is far greater than its current market share in software might suggest. The open-source model increasingly defines what’s possible in technology.

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