Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

Seed Stage 166

Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Once you have put in the effort and found a potential technical co-founder, be generous with equity distribution. are full of smart tech people).

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing. This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 18, 2012

The centrepiece of the ‘free’ argument is that the price of everything drops to its marginal cost of distribution. If Microsoft can maintain profitability whilst their market share declines then they still have an interesting paid for software business.

Software 94

Software Intellectual Property Open Source Business Model 94

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

At this point, you could use a free Open Source stack which would accelerate development. The qualitative bar for the team, idea, and market was high. In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea. Then you’d build the product and spend $5M to market it. You didn’t need to build a datacenter either.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Product Open Source Distribution 105

www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Basically, the kind of technical people you want for a startup — whip smart, adaptable, willing to work long hours for equity instead of cash and highly competent — that person is probably already out there, doing her own startup. Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. open source.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Review Founder Software Review 40

startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These entrepreneurs are looking for a technical cofounder and that person who will build a prototype from their idea in exchange for equity in the business. You can unsubscribe at anytime and we promise not to spam or distribute your information. All rights reserved.

Technical Cofounder 40

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Baltimore Maryland 40

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups. ", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software. Let's recap. Building a Better Product. Facebook Apps).

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The other major trend seems to be pulling in the opposite direction.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Moov can provide the connective tissue (say, to port data into a new, flexible ledger) or the APIs for more reliable ACH payments, based on their open source libraries. Last week, the mobile bank Current launched rewards – previously, a major draw of credit cards – so its users can build point equity with each debit card swipe.

IPO 36

IPO Stock Software Review API 36

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Having founded and published the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path. As the third U.S.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

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.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

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. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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. Consumer devices will represent the majority of physical devices, and enterprises will represent the majority of spending.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence China Incubator Startup 100