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Snyk, from first check to leader in dev-friendly open source security

BeyondVC

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Snyk, which is a developer-first security solution that helps companies use open source code and stay secure. in open source world where much of it is third party code. in open source world where much of it is third party code.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

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. This is one of the reasons that it's so important to have a good co-founder. Never Minimize the Value of Your Co-Founder.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter.

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Making Web Design Easier With Duda

Duct Tape Marketing

Iati is the C o-founder and CEO of Duda – a website development platform used by thousands of agencies around the world to build sites for their customers. Today, Duda serves thousands of agencies and has partnered with some of the biggest players in the industry. Head over to Wix.com/Partners. Marketing Podcast with Itai Sadan.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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“To build a community, you need to focus much more on the user than on the buyer” - Snyk’s Guy Podjarny

Cracking the Code

Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this?

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.