A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

In all the interviews you've read about founders' success, how many credit their MBA program? And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. How many even have MBAs? We work hard. We're cheaper.

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Intellectual Property Bootstrapping Software Review Open Source 319

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We wrote programs that existed solely on a centralized computer (a mainframe), all of our data was stored centrally and all processing was centralized. In busy times compiling a program could take more than an hour, so we obviously didn’t submit often and if our program had errors and was unable to compile it was devastating.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI): The assigned PD/PI on the SBIR/STTR Phase I award. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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Lean SBIR Intellectual Property Customer Development 269

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. They’ve released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play around with real production code, and modify the base examples for their own use. When I first started program, it was 1979.

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Open Source Bootstrapping API HTML 125

Austin Startup

MARCH 27, 2017

If you have any comments or suggestions about these challenges, please do not hesitate to write a comment :) User Interface Art design and main menu is ready. I really hope our players enjoy the light hearted design that helps downplay the seriousness of the underlying theme for the game. We’re so excited sharing first UI images.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Legal docs don’t have to be a source of stress when you’re trying to set up a business. Don’t use these documents blindly ” Taylor Wessing – offers a suite of seed investment documents which are available on an open-source basis.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2020

We use experiments to gather information necessary to validate what we think or feel is the right thing to do with a feature or design element. There are a number of commercial and open-source tools available to help you segment users and run experiments including LaunchDarkly and Convert. A mixture of both is needed.

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Software Review Algorithm Open Source Mobile 165

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks. Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. WordPress was typically used by Web designers who learned to code or by self-taught developers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Its AI system is designed to decode the users’ cognitive and emotional states using their biosignals. Chae talks about the why his smile is his superpower, the promise of an open-source smart home, how to know when it’s time to start a business. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. The open platform showcases candidates’ creations, free to inspect and critique. The way product managers, UX designers, and other “non-technical” roles think , communicates their ability and culture fit. Blogging opens doors.

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Stealth Cofounder Social Media Viral 167

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

It's difficult not to include Steve Jobs at the top of that list; he established a brand in Apple that altered global habits and elevated the importance of design in our daily lives. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Photo Credit: Tiffany Payne. 22- Thomas Edison.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Open metaverse: these are the decentralized platforms built on crypto, such as Manticore Games, Sandbox or Decentraland and many others. That’s why games like Fortnite or PubG make billions selling “skins” (virtual clothes) or why users inside Animal Crossing hire real-world interior designers to help them create beautiful virtual homes.

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Startup Community Social Network Portfolio 187

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Slack is a messaging tool designed to improve the way teams communicate. Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. A rival company has launched a competing version based on its underlying open-source code.

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API Software Review Technical Review Startup 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2019

Adding the right tools and automation, teams can design, test, build, and deploy software more agilely. There are plenty of open source software and commercial software solutions that DevOps teams are using to accelerate app development. Gradle was designed for multi-projects builds, which can grow to large scale.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2012

After all, lots of the code required to build web services are now available off the open source shelf--and many of the processes formally asked of the code are being worked into the language itself, like with Ruby on Rails. Usually when people figure out what to make, it's pretty makeable.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 23, 2019

As an entrepreneur who lives at the intersection of the digital and the physical, the public and the private, the open-source and the proprietary data networks, incentives are something I take very seriously. Take the design of “Smart Cities”, these new digital ecosystems where sensors track every facet of our existence.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2018

What if you could save that money, and produce your own designs and products without having to pay out? Project archives like Thingiverse and Instructables hold a veritable treasure trove of free project designs readily available for public use. It’s free and open source. Recommended Resources: Inkscape.

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Small Business Singapore Cost Open Source 187

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Again, personalization will become more prevalent in product design and marketing. Small business owners now see the value of investing in branding experts, business coaches, copywriters and designers who bring unique insight and talent to the digital marketing space. Personal development course designers flourish in this environment.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 106

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. Who is this program for and why does it exist? 350 billion of this money is dedicated to small businesses under a loan program called the PPP (payroll protection plan). payroll protection. It depends.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

If you want to minimize the cost, use free Content Management Software (CMS) such as WordPress or Joomla to quickly design a website without any programming at all. They come with literally thousands of design templates and plugins. Open source software or clone script is also available.

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Software Review Hosting Intellectual Property Naming 45

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Similarly, Techstars Austin is a force to be reckoned with.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. Nowadays Kent is programming again, this time at Facebook, which he describes: “It''s a laboratory. Just, you know, with my bare hands.

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Lean San Francisco Cofounder Programming 165

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. 3) Open source your real estate.

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New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

Version One Ventures

JULY 9, 2020

This model appears to be successful for programming and will likely carry over into other digital creative fields like design or data science. Primer , Outschool , and Zip ) designed to give families the tools and network to best administer their own education. And Duolingo famously uses gamification (e.g.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF. As part of each of the classes we open source our educators guide here.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. This post is applicable to any kind of business.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Cities Redesigned for Living: During industrialisation cities were designed around factories and offices. They will owned by the individuals (rather than a company), powered by open source software and backed up by machine learning. But cities will be reinvented to be built almost entirely around human living spaces.

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete 91

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

These will enable firms to embrace innovation by design not by exception. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. A company needs innovation policies, innovation processes and innovation incentives to match those it already has for execution.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF. As part of each of the classes we open source our educators guide here.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it.

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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) 4:48) Jen and Raylene's best quarantine tips. (5:50)

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