Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

It’s a collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop NIH-specific version of the Innovation-Corps. I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). (I’ll I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). They cannot be done by proxies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet. Lean startup.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. The series started here if you want to read from the start.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Business funding can help entrepreneurs tackle some of the financial problems at an early stage. Building a website always doesn’t necessarily mean developing a website through complex coding. WordPress is a free and open-source content management system with various templates used for building a website.

Social Media 97

Social Media Marketing Analytics Web Development 97

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, which they co-developed with Fenwick & West. . Cash collateral.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. At the same time, tools that until yesterday were considered “less professional” or “not advanced” are replacing the more complex tools originally built for developers and geeks.

PHP 143

PHP Management HTML Framework 143

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal works at all levels of software development. Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. This imbalance keeps L.A.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Thematically our new investments include 4 targeting the “Rise of the Developer,” 3 in “Intelligent Automation,” and 1 in “Decentralized Computing;” geographically 4 are in NYC, 3 in Bay Area, and 1 in LA (more on our themes ). AYX NYSE) and init.ai , one an early investment in a data science platform and the other on NLP for developers.

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VC Cafe

MAY 24, 2023

He believes we are already seeing people develop feelings or attachment to AI as it can alleviate loneliness and be a great companion (basically the movie “HER”), but we should be very careful. He was asked why is OpenAI not open anymore. No plans for Berlin office anytime soon.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Open Source Early Stage 143

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 1, 2011

10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups - [link]. Google Web Fonts: hundreds free, open-source fonts optimized for Web – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Icon design, the ultimate guide – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market. But the biggest changes in our industry have been driven by technical changes themselves to which we are just observers and fortunate beneficiaries. and hasn’t abated.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 9:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 5:02 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

March 14, 2007 10:47 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. In working with Greg Hannon , the head of Innovation at W.L. Fast forward to today.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 12:50 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Networking Southern California Los Angeles 150

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. Despite all these advantages, it seems that the foreign investors are still reluctant to invest in seed and early stage projects. Erik Hersman Founder at iHub Nairobi.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. I like that. What does it do?

Mobile 282

Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 2:57 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Readers of VC Cafe know I’ve been following the developments in this space for the past couple of years, but it feels like we’ve stepped up the pace of ‘ creative automation ‘ over the past few months. The application landscape, while still in the early stages, seems to be rapidly growing.

Generative AI 204

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Video Architecture 204

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity. All are developer first companies respectively in zero trust security, automation, and developer productivity. Either you’re a mega fund or an early stage fund, being caught in the middle is a place you don’t want to be.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 10:01 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. It can help you be a strong athlete, which makes you an attractive early-stage player.

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Founder Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 April 20, 2007 8:32 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Open source software or clone script is also available. As of June 2018, GitHub hosts 57 million open source project repositories. However, if your business idea is more customized, you could team up with a software developer to build it from scratch or outsource the work.

Software Review 45

Software Review Hosting Intellectual Property Naming 45

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. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

One of the reasons I moved to Forward was to be in the vanguard of change for early stage company finance. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10. At Forward we can benefit from all of these trends.

Venture Capital 144

Venture Capital Silicon Valley Early Stage Angel Investor 144

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Readily accessible, off-the shelf, open-source development tools COMBINED with the ability to launch a product extremely cheaply via creative social marketing makes it easy to build a big-time technology company these days without a lot of money. But the modern technology world is just not built for this model of investing.

Social Network 63

Social Network Technical Review Stock Early Stage 63

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2004

” The project is in its early stages but has grand ambitions. While the idea of software reuse is not new, as developers have talked about this for years, the implementation via a co-op is what’s unique. Artifact Software has a tool that allows developers to collaborate and create a code sharing community.

Software Review 60

Software Review Software Open Source Detroit 60

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney. Engineering/QA.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? They just dont need another authority figure in their life.

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