Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

Early Stage 62

Early Stage Open Source Development Team Review Security 62

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained several critical insights about their business model. He was also VP of Software at Pixar, developing Pixar’s film-making system, and at Amazon where he ran a cloud services project. At Linden Lab, delivered the open-sourced Second Life Viewer 2.0

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Customer Churn Rate Customer Development Lean 323

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Massive proprietary databases? I dont think so.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

Sudip joins us from Andreessen Horowitz where he focused on emerging companies in the datacenter, analytics, security, and cloud sectors, including significant experience working with open source business models and university spinouts. We also added Sudip Chakrabarti.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

They didn’t validate their business model before investing so much in it and under-estimated the “last mile” problem. There are lots of product companies out there who have applied the lean startup model successfully including Dropbox, IMVU and Etsy. Consider open-sourcing certain aspects of your platform.

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Lean Startup Continuous Deployment Open Source 132

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). Advertising.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. This presentation will empower entrepreneurs and managers to: -Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors.

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Lean Austin San Francisco Continuous Deployment 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 3, 2018

Every business — theoretically, at least — has customers, but that doesn’t mean that every business needs a CRM. There are, however, a few different business models that will be able to realize significant benefits from an investment in CRM software. Salesforce.

Artificial Inteligence 83

Artificial Inteligence Agile Software Small Business 83

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

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%. The mobile world brings enormous business opportunities and changes to business models that were unthinkable when VCs made investments ten years ago that produced the last decade of results.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Another one I can really recommend is Business Model Generation. Both books can help you and your team to sort out which idea is worth exploring and which is the one you should settle with in order to start your business. When we launched, Dropbox and Evernote were the two fastest-growing cloud businesses.

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San Francisco Cofounder Germany Europe 125

readwrite.com

JANUARY 23, 2013

As the author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database, and one of the founders of the community-developed branch of the MySQL database, MariaDB , his take on Big Data bucks the conventional wisdom that large-scale data must abandon SQL databases. Enterprise. Share… on Facebook. on Twitter. on Google+.

Database 69

Database SQL Open Source Cloud 69

Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Snabe laid out the major tech themes for SAP, which I will sum up as Data (Hana), Mobile, and Cloud. The focus on cloud computing has been impressive and Snabe made a good point when he commented that in the not too distant future people won’t talk about the cloud vs. on premise because it will be all cloud.

Database 39

Database Technical Review Cloud Acquisition 39

Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

And it is the first significant advantage of using Transformify enterprise cloud suite. As a business customer, you do not need to deploy any software and hardware on-premises, take care about further support and development of the system. So, in the modern world, SaaS is the right option for many innovative business models.

Management 52

Management Technical Review API Software Review 52

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This led to an explosion in startups.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Unlike Lean startups, their priority isn't to learn in order to create a scalable business model. The consolidation of the social graph by Facebook, the various app stores and the abundance of cloud-based services lower time to market. What would be the methodology for startups that simply want to flip?

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Lean Startup Agile Coder 144

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. Kaltura provides the world’s first and only Open Source Online Video Platform.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Furthermore, your vision also needs to be relatable to another business model that investors have seen be successful. If your vision isn’t scalable enough to potentially return their fund within a 4–7 year timeframe, it’s not a big enough vision. Last, but in no way least, Relationship : You are known to the investor.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 100

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

“I pre-stage my investments by developing my own ideas of great business models & frameworks — when I meet a founder doing something similar I can make a quick decision,&# says Craig. View More » Business Essential Startup Funding Tips From 8. What to Consider When Building an In-.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2013

4) Embracing freedom, liberty and openness on the Internet through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) code. This removes the “captive market” business models adopted by old phone and cable companies. The analogy is like driving your own car as opposed to using a retailer’s shopping cart.

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Software Review API Wiki Open Source 133

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

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). Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Lighthouse.

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