VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2023

for example, the company that raised $250M from A16Z to develop LLM chatbots that can act as a specific character. A case in point, Dawn Capital published an interesting take on the potential of generative AI startups in Europe. Not so fast Take Character.ai The post Has Generative AI hype peaked?

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 18, 2020

While some countries do allow grace periods for filing a patent following public disclosure, other countries do not provide these exceptions and obtaining grant of a patent will likely become impossible in many countries in Europe and New Zealand. ii) Using open source software. Trade marks – developing your start-up’s brand.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). Coinbase launched Rosetta, an open-source specification and set of tools that makes integrating with blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable. Funding Announcements .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. They've collected and sorted thousands of possible compounds, and now have multiple drugs in development in a lab in the UK. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The issue may also lie in the history of open source apps and software: the beginning of the internet may have championed collaborative free tech, but what exists now is not free and, I would argue, is less than virtuous. Free Versus Paid Dilemma for Developers. Nothing is Free. Slowly, policies are changing to protect users.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2018

2018 is the year of TechXLR8, the flagship event of London Tech Week, the largest tech festival in Europe, and backed by the mayor of London. Developers will gain exclusive opportunities to build with technologies from top tech companies and compete in teams for our grand prize! Developer Summit. Internet of Things World Europe.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Simon Phipps Subscribe to this blog About Author Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is now at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. Fine work, and many lessons learned , but sadly irrelevant to most of us. Goodbye, WS-I. Follow me as @webmink on Twitter and Identi.Ca

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time). Come to TS in Boston!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. There was no open source, no code repositories like GitHub, no knowledge hubs like StackExchange. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. It is neither. ” F**k.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

Open source collaboration. But going “open source” turned out to be just the thing for mining company GoldCorp when it was struggling to make sense of a mining site in Ontario. It helps employees build character, learn new skills, make new connections, and develop further appreciation for what they do.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

It’s hard to believe but new printers are being developed that can take images off the screen and replicate them into an actual size unit. They have a willingness to ‘open source’. For example, it’s no longer acceptable for fashion from Europe or anywhere to be a season late. Just not good enough in a connected world.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I’ll discuss what skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation youll need, and much more. What is bootstrapping?

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

It’s part two of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. Over the past couple of years Berlin has attracted talented developers, designers, marketers and creative people from all across the globe. Dominate the world. ”.

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readwrite.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

For HTML5 developers and decision makers, the most important technologies right now are HTML, JavaScript, CSS, mobile platforms and devices and evolving HTML platforms (browsers and operating systems). This technique is called “hybrid” app development. By the end of the year, most developers will conclude IE8 is not worth their time.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

billion round into inflection as well as smaller rounds, like the $105M seed round into 4-week old Mistral, a French startup developing LLMs to rival OpenAI. Building on top of the Open Source generative AI stack – Open source LLMs are constantly increasing in quality and are likely to continue get better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. I wondered if we could do the same for hardware development. We connected the sensors to a seven year old pc with an Arduino-like interface that ran a simple drum program we developed.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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The Next Web

APRIL 22, 2013

Fast forward to today, and Geeksphone is gearing up to start selling the first units of the (developer preview versions of its) Keon and Peak smartphones running Firefox OS. Tomorrow or next Wednesday, its online store will open and developers will be able to order the first devices. Betting on Mozilla’s new mobile OS.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

The history is important but trying to use the trajectory of history to predict the future is a strategy fraught with peril and SAP should be mindful of the fact that history reveals a continuing series of disruptive developments that upend incumbents with increasing speed and violence. over to fill the gap?). SAP knows databases.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The automated tooling that Netflix has developed lets us quickly deploy large scale Cassandra clusters, in this case a few clicks on a web page and about an hour to go from nothing to a very large Cassandra cluster consisting of 288 medium sized instances, with 96 instances in each of three EC2 availability zones in the US-East region.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The pilot program allowed nine companies , including Apple, to begin developing products (like the Watch) using this regulatory shortcut. Apple has attempted to get medical researchers to create new health apps by developing ResearchKit , an open source framework for researchers. What’s Not Working? Great idea.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Betterview - Company Website.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Binpress is a distribution platform for web and mobile developers. It is a software market geared for modern development environments – frameworks and application platforms – with emphasis on quality, tested, open-source code. Fribiz incentivize everything.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Additionally, if your site has a user base in other markets like Europe, South America or Asia, you may also want to offer login through various international social networks like Vkontakte , Orkut , RenRen or Mixi to ensure your site appeals to global users. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Anti-Piracy Agreement ACTA Is Falling Apart in Europe. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. With authentication you can get up to 1500 results is one go. Mashable SXSWi House.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Global search ad spending up 17% in Q2 (but Europe only 2% growth) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 18 free online tools useful for web designers and developers – [link]. Not a good metric for small business – [link].

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

While the last two decades have brought a wealth of exciting Internet developments, I’ve been saddened to see what was once a messy web of p2p connections become increasingly domesticated into walled gardens ruled by a small handful of megacorporations. . Europe (e.g. Europe without formal banking btw). cash under the mattress).

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter targets the developers and QA testing market. How are you planning to sell Blazemeter? Alon: The total round is 1.2M$.

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gigaom.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

One of these approaches is making big data accessible to developers, which is where startups such as Continuuity , Infochimps and even Precog (a big data BI engine, by nature) come into play. ROOT is entirely Open Source (LGPL). Nov 3, 2012 - 2:00PM PT. 5 trends that are changing how we do big data. By Derrick Harris 7 Comments.

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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. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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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. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. High Quality, and open sourced! Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

The rise of global open source hardware platforms offers tools for creating lower-cost IoT hardware, but the industry falls short when it comes to support for distribution and market awareness. Largest number of smart connected devices install base in the world, surpassing the US and Europe. (

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