Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Early in your startup’s development, you’ll likely be low on capital. Even if you have an angel investor or a venture capital (VC) firm backing you, you’ll have an abundance of expenses, limited income, and a finite amount of time before the money completely runs out. Rely on Open Source Software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). The overall trends in our industry have breathed a new life into the venture capital industry. 2007 was the watershed year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Software crowd sourcing. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Morning in VC.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2020

While this is a fine initial use case, I look forward to the development of more p2p lending for productive purposes (think microfinance, small businesses lending, or venture capital), which will help to create actual new wealth and dampen volatility. I just think this is going to take longer than I initially expected. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Software crowd sourcing. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger wrote a post yesterday about the disruption of venture capital which lists the changes afoot: Information about VCs on the internet. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Other popular funding assistance sites for startups, including StartupAmerica and Startups.co

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products.

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2015

The Austin-based startup plans to use the funds on product development, sales and marketing and community development. Continuum makes Anaconda, the leading modern open source analytics platform built on Python, an open data science language.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Despite that, it’s also hard to ignore the following facts: Enormous spend and growth for public cloud and app infrastructure, middleware and developer software of $50b (Gartner, Pivotal S-1). Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. Rise of multi-cloud.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. Bad Notes on Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1u3NJvn. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why Introverts Make Great Leaders – crowdspring.co/1yhmaS5.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 6, 2016

We need to predict which companies are going to succeed and second guess future trends so we can develop our firms to stay ahead of the curve. open minded. However, even with these it’s important to keep an open mind and back off quickly if they aren’t playing out as planned. Good VCs need to be good forecasters.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 18, 2020

In most cases, you will also need to present your idea to third parties, for example venture capital investors. ii) Using open source software. Open source software can be useful in terms of development of a project. Open source software can be useful in terms of development of a project.

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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. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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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. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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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. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

.” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper. One thing Kraus didn’t mention, however, was that even as other costs got cheaper, the cost of a good developer kept going up.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

According to Schumpter, capitalism is an evolutionary process where new industries and new companies continually emerge to knock out the old. Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

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Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

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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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. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The sudden rise of prominence of the super angels has shaken the very foundations of the venture capital industry, according to Graham.

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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. We are just in the early innings of developing the Metaverse and are excited to invest in the new category leaders in this space. An interesting case is Minecraft.

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Startup Community Social Network Portfolio 187

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The sudden rise of prominence of the super angels has shaken the very foundations of the venture capital industry, according to Graham.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Could Your Business Survive Without You? – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

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.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. But what if you can use data to reduce the risk, by finding better targets for development? Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Software Review Startup 60

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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