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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. AI characters are already hosting interactive streams and shows in which they respond to audience questions, comments, or votes in real-time.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

If you’re building a startup, the Startup Tools tab on the top of this page has curated links to hundreds of startup resources. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. Free: Startup Tools. Sign up here.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. I am Eric Ries.

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The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

This is going to be BIG.

Github is a web based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, a revision control system. People used to ask you where you are present--where you can be found--and it was all about what you consumed, curated and liked. That is the very month that Facebook became the largest social network, outpacing MySpace.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. It needs to help us to discover and curate content that is relevant to us from all the noise. Of course there are exceptions?—?last This involves learning context and content attributes.

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Nine Webcasts to Learn From

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The conversation centered around a few key topics: customers, bureaucracy, and MVP. It''s humanly impossible.

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Marketing Platform Independence

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So if you had to leave Heroku, you'd just get a hosted server somewhere, "git clone" your code, install a database, and restore from a backup. Of course it would be a pain in the butt and could even mean a day of down-time and lost data, but that's true no matter where you host. Your company is still alive.

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