www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

In the last year, there has been a resurgence of interest, some say a bubble, by both angels and VCs, in a pre-Series A kicker to identify promising startups with seed funding, before major equity has been given away. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

Early Stage 253

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 253

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

In the last year, there has been a resurgence of interest, some say a bubble, by both angels and VCs, in a pre-Series A kicker to identify promising startups with seed funding, before major equity has been given away. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

Early Stage 231

Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. They may be experienced enough to give you guidance as consultant.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2014

I’ve always loved his hacker spirit, amazing ability to do things no one else could envision, and willingness to open source a lot of his work to lead the way for others. Oculus says ZeniMax canceled Doom 3 VR support over equity demands. Oculus denies John Carmack stole VR tech from his former employer.

Intellectual Property 130

Intellectual Property Acquisition IP Open Source 130

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing. This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

The CB Insights report specifically which came out just before the holidays put a bright light on the supply-demand imbalance of the seed-stage companies searching for Series A capital.

Seed Stage 166

Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

Gust

JULY 8, 2012

In the last year, there has been a resurgence of interest, some say a bubble, by both angels and VCs, in a pre-Series A kicker to identify promising startups with seed funding, before major equity has been given away. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

Early Stage 177

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 2, 2014

From a market perspective we liked the fact that companies everywhere are building their own custom cloud monitoring solutions using open source software – just like David and his team did at Alfresco, and that as cloud penetration increases demand for cloud monitoring solutions is only going to grow.

Cofounder 95

Cofounder Continuous Deployment Seed Stage Cloud 95

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Myth #3: Standardized Docs = Open Source Law. “Open Source Law&# is a buzz phrase thrown around frequently, but what the legal profession is experiencing is more of an automation of various parts of the law practice… not the entire practice of law. There will always be demand for good counsel.

Delaware 49

Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 49

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Myth #3: Standardized Docs = Open Source Law. “Open Source Law&# is a buzz phrase thrown around frequently, but what the legal profession is experiencing is more of an automation of various parts of the law practice… not the entire practice of law. There will always be demand for good counsel.

Delaware 45

Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 45

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Physical products and print-on-demand. Docracy – open source legal documents. Crowdcube (UK) – equity crowd funding. Seedrs (UK) – equity crowd funding. Stripe - best payment processing online. GoCardless (UK) – accept direct debit payments. for the developing world). Crowd funding.

Software Review 56

Software Review Founder Widget SMS 56

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications.

Private Equity 87

Private Equity Equity PHP 87

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. Before venture, equity financing was seen as a pretty unfriendly business. These corporate raiders, and these leverage buyouts and this private equity hatchet bin. You would get so much attention.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

Artificial Inteligence 417

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

  There are three categories (startup, equity financing and bridge loans) so we can expect more to come. So I think this is a brilliant step toward " open source law " which I've been advocating for a while.    Building that must have been crazy. .   Building that must have been crazy.

Term Sheet 52

Term Sheet Intellectual Property Venture Capital Hawaii 52

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

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

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). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. That key person will understand what product or service the market is demanding and surround himself with the smartest people to make sure the idea gets realized. 90% of entrepreneurs can not raise capital.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51