Polar Signals open-sources Parca to optimize code and cut cloud bills
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 8, 2021
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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018
BeyondVC
JANUARY 6, 2018
2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50. Tied to this will be a need for a hybrid, cloud/on-prem deployment and we are excited about portfolio companies like replicated that play to this future. 2017 Recap.
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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success
The Next Web
JANUARY 15, 2014
James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. By doing so, we demystify the online education experience and use our technology to empower the students enrolled in our partner programs. .
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The Rapid Evolution of Generative AI Video footage
VC Cafe
JANUARY 17, 2024
Timeline of Generative AI for video progress in 2023 A16Z partner Justine Moore posted an excellent X thread on the advances of generative AI for video right before the end of the year. The large tech players are well positioned to lead in this space given their access to deep learning talent, unlimited cloud resources and deep pockets.
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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019
BeyondVC
JANUARY 3, 2019
We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. We are truly grateful for your support.
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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible.
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New investment: Upverter, a cloud-based platform for the hardware revolution
Version One Ventures
MARCH 20, 2014
In the design phase, we believe that hardware engineering will follow a similar path as the open source software community that built GitHub. That’s why we are thrilled to officially announce our investment in Toronto’s Upverter , a cloud-based platform for sharing hardware design.
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Generative AI: Incumbents vs. Upstarts
VC Cafe
MAY 23, 2023
More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world.
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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market.
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IPA: a Quiet $10B Market (Automation is En Fuego part 2)
Austin Startup
MAY 24, 2021
The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Highland Europe. It also shows the huge global market opportunity that is in front of Camunda as demand for open, cloud-native process automation solutions that can orchestrate processes end-to-end is quickly reshaping the market.”
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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs
Genuine VC
JULY 19, 2010
Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.
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boldstart 2021 recap & what’s ?? in enterprise 2022
BeyondVC
JANUARY 5, 2022
We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. A number of open source projects will become a DAOs (decentralized autonomous organization) instead of pursuing the classic venture backed model.
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Moving At The Speed Of ‘What’s Next’: Subscription Business Models Spur Continuous Innovation
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 4, 2017
With the immense success of cloud platforms and S oftware – as -a- Service (SaaS) models on one hand and the increase of subscription services on the other, it’s clear that software offered as a subscription is becoming the new standard. In fact, Gartner forecasts that the Asia Pacific public cloud services market will grow 17.7
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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)
www.readwriteweb.com
MAY 10, 2012
Cloud Computing. Thanks to Apples iOS and Googles open source Android OS, smartphone and tablet apps have enjoyed a period of astounding success over the past few years. A side-by-side comparison; Kindle iPad app is on the left, Kindle Cloud Reader on the right. RWW PARTNERS. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart.
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Intel’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop Software To Help Process Big Data
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 7, 2013
Hadoop , an open source framework for storing and processing large volumes of diverse data on a scalable cluster of servers that has pretty much emerged as the preferred platform for managing big data, itself promises to be able to keep pace with big data’s rapid evolution, so it’s no surprise to see Intel leap onto the bandwagon.
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Twitter Link Roundup #173 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 5, 2013
Ranking the Top 10 Cloud Startups – [link]. 10 Rules for the Open Brand – [link]. SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links | Adam Sherk – [link]. 25+ Epic Web Design In Cloud Based Software Apps – [link]. The Culture of Free and The Future of Google – [link].
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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 1, 2015
It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. These would have the advantage of avoiding the privacy concerns of conversational toys like Toy Talk and Mattel’s ‘ Hello BarbieTM’ , at least until voice can be processed locally rather than in the cloud. Better search.
Digital Transformation In Business
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 29, 2023
This transformation encompasses leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence , cloud computing, data analytics, and mobile applications to enhance efficiency, agility, and innovation. Both frameworks offer numerous advantages, but their approaches and ecosystem differ.
The disruption of venture capital
The Equity Kicker
JULY 30, 2013
Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger wrote a post yesterday about the disruption of venture capital which lists the changes afoot: Information about VCs on the internet. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10.
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Announcing our investment in Dataloop
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 2, 2014
Dataloop provides infrastructure monitoring for cloud services and they fall into our ‘late seed’ category of investment. They were coming out of Alfresco where they’d built a custom solution to monitor their infrastructure as they’d moved from an on premise software company to a cloud play.
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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017
BeyondVC
DECEMBER 29, 2016
2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. Fortune 1000 companies continue their slow but steady march to the cloud unlocking significant $$$.
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When Customers Make You Smarter
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 2, 2013
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 The Tidepool team originally believed they were going charge their device partners “market prices” for access to their platform.
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Rackspace Launches OpenStack Training Programs
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
The San Antonio-based company founded OpenStack, the standard open-source operating system for cloud computing. It has also established a training partner program with New Horizons Computer […] The post Rackspace Launches OpenStack Training Programs appeared first on SiliconHills.
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Nine Webcasts to Learn From
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
They did it all open-source, so from an ethos point of view it was opposite, and from an infrastructure point of view it was all cloud and modern like you would expect. Classic minimum viable product. And if we could collaborate as teachers across different schools and across subject areas in courses, it would be helpful.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Ive been talking to the folks at [a very good VC firm] about helping them with a new venture. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Take a look and let me know what you think.
Meet the 32 Israeli Centaurs that reached $100M in ARR
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
“The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” Scaling to $100 Million from Bessemer Venture Partners. ” Bessemer. Today there are over 1,000 unicorns globally. Meet the Israeli Centaurs.
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Building a Winning Team through the Draft and Free Agency
Lightspeed Venture Partners
APRIL 12, 2016
In preparation for the new fund, we have enhanced our enterprise team by adding two new partners through the draft and free agency. At Lightspeed, we have taken a similar approach to building our organization over the years. With the announcement of our latest fund , our regular season is now approaching. We also added Sudip Chakrabarti.
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Gazzang Banks $3.5M Series A
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 6, 2010
the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 22, 2020
They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 16:54) Jen discusses making open source tools. (19:16) So I think that's an extreme example of open source.
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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 30, 2009
I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).
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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder
nikcub.appspot.com
MARCH 8, 2012
Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Is there a similar product that already exists that perhaps you can partner with? (ie. it doesnt exist) and work with them to build something that they would partner with you on.
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The Equity Kicker
MARCH 10, 2015
Rob Johnson, who I got to know when he was CEO of our partner company Makers Academy wrote a great answer on Quora yesterday. At the time I wrote “From a market perspective we liked the fact that companies everywhere are building their own custom cloud monitoring solutions using open source software” Startup general interest'
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ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 11, 2012
But sometimes you want to partner with someone with more maturity, and realize when that is needed. Look at what you can get on open source sites. You can host your own blog, set up your own domain, sign up for cloud-based accounting, and a lot more for less than $500 a year, in some cases a lot less.
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Guy Nirpaz
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
On this blog we will share what we learn from speaking to sales and customer success professionals in the field of open source and SaaS software. Alcove9 is a young company with an open source search tool that looks into a company’s intranet and indexes all of its data and information for rapid retrieval.
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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 27, 2009
It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Herein lies the reason my partner and I started Dillotronics - as well as the reason your take on the matter resonated so well here. and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation.
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Activist Seeds - The Latest, Subtle Trend in Seed Investing
Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 30, 2012
When I entered the VC business 10 years ago, I tried to keep thinking about venture capital as a business, where the key focus area was on meeting the needs of our target customers -- entrepreneurs and limited partner investors. But as the "Great Seed Experiment" (as my partner, Michael Greeley , calls it) matures, a new trend is emerging.
How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 15, 2011
While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. These end up being words that often minimize the value of a partner's work. It's not easy to build a great Web application.
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Standing Cloud Closes $3m Financing, Launches Partner Program
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Standing Cloud , which makes it easy to deploy and run apps in the cloud, recently closed a $ 3m financing led by Rich Levandov at Avalon Ventures. Rich has spend a lot of time in the clouds lately, including his investment in Cloudkick which was acquired yesterday by Rackspace.
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Investment Thesis @USV
www.usv.com
MAY 29, 2012
Taken together, these components comprise how USV looks at the Internet at large to find places where we should invest and where we can be good partners. The value of these businesses tends to be composed of the very networks they have created.
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How To Bootstrap Your Startup
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.
The 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups in 2016
VC Cafe
MAY 12, 2016
NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners. Ctera – Private cloud for corporates (Raised $45M). Logz.io – Predictive ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) log analytics cloud service (Raised $8M).
Generative AI mega rounds and opportunities for Israeli startups
VC Cafe
JULY 7, 2023
Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.
Series Seed Financing Documents
www.seriesseed.com
MARCH 2, 2010
Ive gotten very good feedback from my partners and other practitioners about the Series Seed Documents. Even with my great launch partners using them, it takes time for a new standard to emerge. Additionally, I plan to “open source” the documents so that they can be continually improved by suggestions from the community.
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