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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Technical Support – a “debugging copilot” for the engineers currently working in technical support.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress. Here’s Part 2 of Dino’s story….

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

This presents a big change for Microsoft , who in a different era would’ve have looked so favorably toward open source — they will sunset internal repository Codeplex in an effort to bring Microsoft tooling to a new cadre of developers. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B

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How Starting a Podcast Can Benefit Small Businesses

Up and Running

And those could provide extra content, drive traffic to your company’s primary channels, or both. And it puts you in a position to steer that conversation, or even start new conversations that could overflow into other channels. Audacity is an open-source program that is widely used by both first-time showrunners and Top 100 shows.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin. > 36,000 public channels . > In the world of cryptocurrency, only payment channels like Lightning allow for that level of optimization.