Cloud, Open Source and Silicon Valley

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

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

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. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Why Valley Rules Don’t Work in Regional Economies.

Early Stage

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review

Open-source Something Often

Diego Basch

JUNE 10, 2013

If you write code for a living, when was the last time you released something as open source? Assuming you take pride in your work (if you don’t… well), open-source code is an incentive to: Make sure the code is not horrendously embarrassing. I wanted to create word clouds such as the ones on Wordle.

Open Source

Open Source Coder Software Review API

Why Your Startup Hasn’t Gotten Funded

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It is the traditional way seed stage startups get funded in Silicon Valley and it remains difficult and out of reach for most entrepreneurs. Here in Silicon Valley the rule-makers define smart teams solely based on pedigree. The New Way , called Traction. TVR: The traditional way of raising seed funding.

Seed Stage

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital

Visions of Web 3

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). They use a similar time bounded payment model as traditional cloud storage providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure. Ambitious open source operating systems/app store alternatives (e.g. Lightning Network ).

Web

Web Technical Review Software Review Social Network

boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir. While the cloud wars, AI, automation, and digital transformation dominated the enterprise headlines in 2018, we have to remember that we are still early in the cycle.

Stealth

Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia

Startup Tools

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

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. It promises to revolutionize the way developers and operation teams work, aiming to make application development for the cloud less of a nightmare. See also: What Is Docker And Why Does It Matter?

API

API Software Review Technical Review Startup

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]. 25+ Epic Web Design In Cloud Based Software Apps – [link]. The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Startup Resources

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.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

The disruption of venture capital

The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

Angel investing has grown – wealth creation in the internet bubble massively increased the number of angel investors, particularly outside Silicon Valley. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Silicon Valley Early Stage Angel Investor

Kernel column: Falling costs enable regional startup hubs

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston

Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

It provides the cloud computing services and spam filters that Google soon integrated into Gmail. It provides the cloud computing services and spam filters that Google soon integrated into Gmail. GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. Open Source Lists.

San Francisco

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development?

Lean

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment

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.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Cofounder Programming

The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Yes, you may be more familiar with the term open source, but lets give credit where credit is due , at least for today). This is especially true in Silicon Valley. If youve never been a contributor to a free software project before, take a look at Contributing to Open Source Without Committing a Line Of Code.

Software Review

Software Review Software Hiring San Francisco

Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS.

Startup

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy. In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup.

DC

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR

Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Flash vs. HTML5: The "Pong" Version 37Signals Creates iPad-Only Web App An Open Source, HTML5 Framework for i.

Angel Investor

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media

What I Would Have Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. My wife worked at Google so while we had good income in Silicon Valley it’s hardly the life of luxury given the costs of housing. We all know that.

Liquidity Event

Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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. A unique workshop for women with the next big startup idea, Jumpstart Your Startup is available for aspiring women entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development?

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment

The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. Nothing is going to stop cloud. So the shift towards cloud services. ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock

Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Do you know,” exclaimed an elderly venture capitalist over lunch in the Garden Court at the Palace Hotel on New Montgomery Street, “within a ten-block radius of where we are sitting is the cloud computing center of the world?” By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close.

San Francisco

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland

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