crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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? All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. Once again, check the blogs.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 10, 2014

Both the amount of money required and the depth of skills required have fallen precipitously, the first driven by open source software and cloud computing and the second by the improving quality of tools, services and advice available to entrepreneurs. Hence it is increasingly important to execute right first time.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2010

In March I wrote about Standing Cloud ’s public launch of a free service to test drive open source applications. Through September 30, the only fees Standing Cloud is charging is for the server time and bandwidth usage; after that it will cost an additional $19.95/month

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company. Marty Zwilling.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

When we talk about the commoditization of technology and how cheap it is to launch a new business on the web, we think open source and commodity servers. Now think about being able to launch a new web-based business and only paying for what you use. Not too bad when you think that you can scale up or scale down pretty easily.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. When I was first starting companies in the late nineties it took $3 million just to get version one of our product out the door. We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

PageSpeed improves web page latency and bandwidth usage by changing the resources on that web page to implement web performance best practices. Memcached is an open source high-performance distributed memory object caching system intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It has 1061 servers in about 54 countries, is open-source, has DNS leak protection, is independently audited, and is also compatible with Android, Ios, and Mac. Proton’s VPN app for Windows is open-source, meaning that it makes it effortless to spot issues that can interfere with your online security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company. Marty Zwilling.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Posted by: Peter Cooper | September 10, 2007 7:23 AM It wouldve been nice to hear a mention, or at least suggestion, of the role open source software plays in the development process - even if to say it shouldnt be used. Posted by: Dave | September 10, 2007 7:44 AM Hey Peter.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 1, 2004

It is Open Data coupled with Open Communication built on top of Open Source that will drive the future, not Longhorn. It makes so much sense and will continue to do so as we get even more bandwidth and more devices from which to access web-based services.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In addition, to horrible bandwidth and latency, the technology products were very crude in other ways. The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software. Average consumer bandwidth increased 100 fold due to cable modems, DSL, and high-speed wireless networks.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 19, 2005

But with every bubble bursting comes a rebirth and from the last bubble what we have is lots of cheap bandwidth, resilient entrepreneurs who scraped for crumbs to survive, and a mentality to do it cheaply (rise of open source and leveraging commodity inputs).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Hear hear, @matseinarsen explaining at #cxllive that every company has a specific experimentation bandwidth and that you can calculate this! Knowledge Repo – open sourced. Mats Einarsen – Lessons Learnt from Creating a Large Scale Experimentation Culture. power pic.twitter.com/KpApNa8z6C. Learnings, next steps, etc.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

Even if the blockchain that powers Bitcoin lacks the bandwidth to handle the required transaction volume, and even if the world wasn’t ready 11 years ago for non-governmental e-money to go mainstream, the potential was always there. Bitcoin has always had the potential to become a world standard for money.

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BeyondVC

JULY 13, 2004

The crux of his discussion is that standardization and commoditization is not terrible as it inevitably opens up new market opportunities for industry players (just look at the railroad industry as an example). On the tech side, Jonathan believes it is mainly bandwidth that has been commoditized as opposed to a broader trend in software.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

You may have existing code lying around from earlier projects, or be able to use open-source components or libraries to make your life easier. You have a limited fund, bandwidth for deals you can work on, and a portfolio of existing code and skills. Build your product on top of existing blocks. Think of yourself as a VC.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Inference can even occur locally on edge devices where physical devices meet the digital world (routers, sensors, IOT devices), close to the source of where the data is generated. This reduces network bandwidth issues and eliminates latency issues. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. More computing power.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. By then the open-source movement had really developed. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

It’s the creation of open source platforms that enable anyone who can type to make something. It’s another case of the infrastructure and bandwidth catching up to desire. Like all emerging technology the capability is not the problem – it’s the education of the possibilities. So what happened?

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

It’s the creation of open source platforms that enable anyone who can type to make something. It’s another case of the infrastructure and bandwidth catching up to desire. Like all emerging technology the capability is not the problem – it’s the education of the possibilities. So what happened?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. In the 20 th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth. A hardware startup had to spend money building prototypes and equipping a factory to manufacture the product.

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