Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Our goal is to open-source this class to other universities and create the 21 st Century version of Tech ROTC. Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K. Sales and marketing costs.

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Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Accelerators, hubs, cafes, open-sourcing, crowd-souring, maker spaces, Chief Innovation Officers, etc. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The class is joint listed in Stanford’s International Policy department as well as in the Engineering School, in the department of Management Science and Engineering. — Why This Course?

Artificial Inteligence 368

Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Iran 368

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). The drilldowns are Keyword, Source (engine) and Mobile Device Branding. And again, a custom set of metrics.

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

readwrite.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Tizen, meanwhile, enjoys broad industry backing from Intel, Samsung, NEC, Panasonic, Sprint, Huawei and Vodafone (among many others), and engineering stewardship in The Linux Foundation. Only the most stubborn corporate environments (and China) still require IE6 support, and much of the world skipped IE7 anyway. Made For Chrome(kit).

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HTML Mobile API Cloud 90

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Target email openers and clickers, run ads to people who opened but didn’t click, clicked but didn’t buy. Example: wechat in China. 60-80% open rates and click through rates. Knowledge Repo – open sourced.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

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. Heck the site wasn’t even submitted to search engines. In America, the cost of doing business is very high. Little did I know back then though.

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SEO PPC America Design 86

www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can certainly find open-source alternatives for less, but while other tools can challenge BaseCamps functionality, they cant touch its UI. Its also incredibly flexible, allowing you to change your entire layout and composition with a single theme file, while still maintaining your sites integrity and standing with search engines.

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Startup Wiki RSS Software Developers 53

VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. Our generative AI portfolio includes HourOne , a text to video solution that enables companies to create high quality presenter-led video from text without the need of a camera.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 78

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

In January, I started building a model just to try to understand as it was starting to spread it in China, just understanding the nature of the spread. So, our model, we ended up moving from a spreadsheet model to a model based on one created by Alison Hill at Harvard that is open source. I had to look it up. It's that old.

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New York Campaign Technical Review Germany 60

Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Well, a big FYI to all – iPhone and Android were not the first mobile phones, Facebook was not the first social network ( Six Degrees was), Google, not the first search engine (see Archie ),the list goes on. You just a domain name, a web hosting account and online software, which could be free, thanks to open source.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Entrepreneur Netherlands NDA 49

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. So it makes sense that we all use the same social media network and a single search engine that learns and gets better based on every search that is entered into it.

Government 79

Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Power Recommendation Engines. Engineers can input design goals into AI-driven generative design software , along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Examples here , here and here.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

On a more serious note, Gordon has a laundry list of founder qualities or experiences that will pique his curiosity: “Have a resume I envy and admire; make a significant contribution at a company I am fascinated by; write a great book or make a great game or TV show; [develop] significant software engineering experience and/or education.&#

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.

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Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital.

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Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. China has simply become the factory. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

In addition, the companies that actually took advantage of offshore development and were successful were the ones that opened their own wholly-owned Indian subsidiaries. "China and India combined to produce nearly half the world’s economic output in 1820 compared to just 1.8% for the U.S. So what does this mean for us.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Find a senior engineer, take them out to lunch, pick their brain. Take good notes!

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

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

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

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! Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source).

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