Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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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. Toya’s Miraculous Ladybug RP game has garnered more than 335M plays (Source: Toya ). Crypto gaming can become the biggest onboarding platform to the crypto world and open up that world.

Startup 187

Startup Community Social Network Portfolio 187

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. 1) Generalizable Payments .

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Networking Global OTC Security 168

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

Because they have been around for over two decades, they have an incredibly engaged community, and many developers and tools build their applications with WordPress in mind. . Image source ). WordPress is also incredibly customizable, though you might need to tap some developer resources for the final touch. Image source ).

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Hosting SEO 91

BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2017

Great blog post by CockroachDB on open source business models and their plans to make money: If you’re serious about building a company around open source software, you must walk a narrow path: introduce paid features too soon, and risk curtailing adoption. Without the developers, you have no customers.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. The Amazon Kindle played on Amazon’s strengths as a distributor of content but required developing expertise in electronics and manufacturing.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. MovingForward is an open-source directory that pools diversity, inclusion, and anti-harassment commitments from VCs.

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Term Sheet Los Angeles Open Source Portfolio 284

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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. Today, we are up to announce boldstart v + opportunities ii, $230m to continue backing Developer First + SaaS founders from Day 1 to Scale. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As a result, it is a wonderful moment to develop a unique solution in this field. Fourth, real estate companies are increasingly developing superior remote property viewings to increase their business. Fifth, software systems can now develop ad campaigns for new listings automatically. Photo Credit: Lattice Hudson.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 102

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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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Gore , I’ve found two corporate strategy tools developed by other smart people helpful in bridging Lean Startups with Corporate Innovation. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Fast forward to today.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

Why Every Designer Should Have a Portfolio – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Useful tools and resources for web designers and developers – [link]. Extraordinary Skateboard Designs – [link]. Who are we?

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

David Cohen

MARCH 3, 2016

I define “web infrastructure” companies as those (at least initially) targeted primarily at developers. They typically take the form of APIs and make life easier on the web for developers. Recently, one of our newer portfolio companies was looking for some advice from our network regarding hiring a developer evangelist.

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Developer Hiring API Open Source 48

Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). At the end of every quarter, we publish a quick recap. Here are some of the highlights: .

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North Carolina Raleigh Stealth Seattle 148

Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. “Duh, websites are developed, launched, and run in the cloud” will be common knowledge soon enough. I had to be there. The biggest ideas are usually the simple ones.

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Vermont Startup Campaign Virginia 165

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

As started a few weeks ago with RackN, I am putting forward a Spotlight Series on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Next up, Appbase — wow… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Global Austin Portfolio Marketing 48

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. . Another tool is NoteGenie.io.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). That’s no secret. Small checks now have big power.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Encouraging and supporting a career in tech continues to be a key focus in Singapore, with the government announcing a $120m fund to prepare and develop Singapore talent for 30,000 new ICT jobs by 2020. For developers and designers, it is key to showcase their work and skills on platforms, such as LinkedIn, GitHub and Stack Overflow.

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Singapore Acquisition Agile Open Source 138

BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. I vividly remember the day that Scott Yara and Luke Lonergan came in to the room to tell us that we had serious problems and that we would have to start development over and scrap the old architecture for a new one.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Open Source Architecture Database 109

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2013

. “People and machines are producing valuable information that could enrich our lives in so many ways, from pinpoint accuracy in predicting severe weather to developing customized treatments for terminal diseases, says Boyd Davis, vice president and general manager of Intel ‘s Datacenter Software Division.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section. Google’s App Inventor is a good example of a DIY tool.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. I vividly remember the day that Scott Yara and Luke Lonergan came in to the room to tell us that we had serious problems and that we would have to start development over and scrap the old architecture for a new one.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Architecture Open Source Database 109

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Tesla Motors announced yesterday it has opened its patent portfolio in hopes of encouraging other companies to create new electric vehicles. In a blog post, CEO Elon Musk said this was done “In the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.”

Intellectual Property 200

Intellectual Property California Open Source Portfolio 200

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As we are getting more and more excited about the rapid rise and potential of a decentralized web (web 3.0) , we are looking forward to seeing Arweave play a crucial role in this process.

Non-Compete 116

Non-Compete Dividend Open Source Community 116

BeyondVC

MARCH 17, 2004

“A machine with 1GByte of RAM could easily be assembled today for less than $1,500,” says Orion Hodson, a XORP developer. Speaking of open source software, MySQL just announced a new version of its database which has built in load-balancing and automated failover so it can be deployed in large transactional environments.

Open Source 60

Open Source Database Analytics Portfolio 60

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies.

Stealth 60

Stealth Canada Azure Architecture 60

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Through these experiences, I discovered my passion for leadership development and championed it into University of Toronto Engineering in two ways: a program that equips graduate students with leadership theory and practice, and what is now an institute for leadership education in engineering – the first of its kind in Canada.

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Venture Capital San Jose San Francisco Bankruptcy 144

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 14, 2013

Google saying it closed Reader because user numbers were declining is and the rumoured acquisition of Pulse by LinkedIn for ‘over’ $50m are two from this week, and very few developers are updating their tools for bloggers anymore. I hope that they succeed.

Open Source 108

Open Source Acquisition Portfolio Developer 108

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

By revolutionizing the enterprise computing market with the Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement. In addition, an incredible new class of never-before-possible applications will be developed.

Acquisition 78

Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 78

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and. Ed Helms and Celebrity Friends Fight.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View Comments Watch Facebook, Groupon and Quora’s Founders Speak at Startup School [VIDEO] View Comments Mashable Weekend Recap: 19 Stories You Might Have Missed View Comments Groupon’s Founder on How to Get Super Rich View Comments PHP, MySQL & AJAX Developer at Comentum Corp. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Develop and refine your idea. Develop and refine your idea. A photographer’s calling card is their portfolio and work samples. There are self-hosted open-source portfolio apps available that allow you to combine your uniquely branded website with a gallery of your work. Develop and refine your idea.

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Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc., the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5

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