VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Congrats to Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Compvis, @runwayml @StabilityAI , everyone who participated and the whole open-source community. Going back to where we started, as these Generative AI tools become more widely distributed, the effort required to create content will go down, and the quantity of content will significantly go up.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Drupal supports various modules and distributions which fasten the process of editing, thus saving both your time and money. . Drupal offers modules and distributions which provide necessary site features and functions in a single download. Open Enterprise – For website with important tools and functionality.

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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.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The first major product market fit is in building an open, permissionless financial system (commonly referred to as DeFi). I’m guessing the next wave will center around creating other sorts of open, permissionless businesses and human organizations, more commonly referred to as DAOs or Distributed Autonomous Organizations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2024

When the founder of WordPress/Automattic says all he wants for his birthday is for you to blog , well, you blog. Here are some things to read: There’s No Money in Free Software [ Ben Werdmuller ] – The provocative titles refers to Ben’s experience trying to build a startup around an open source product.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. Focus on capital efficient, scalable startups and founders. Lessons Learned. Regions are missing early-stage capital. Build $10-30M funds.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 26, 2021

We back mission-driven founders, those who will stop at nothing to solve a deep pain point that they know well. In particular, crypto projects are already set up for this global mindset: their platforms are immediately accessible on a worldwide basis and their open-source nature has always relied on distributed teams. .

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category. So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago.

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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. The company is shutting down its consumer product in early June.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. This can often lead to introductions to suitable people, or into networks where you can find a technical co-founder.

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Building a successful investment franchise over the past few decades required finding a distribution advantage as products have been mostly undifferentiated. And the most successful founders in this space will be engineers, not salespeople. founders beginning to look at crypto. In the past few months, we have seen many Web 2.0

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.) Finally we can use the open-source lean classes from the National Science Foundation I-Corps and the Stanford/Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes to run Horizon 3 projects.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. What It Takes To Recruit A Technical Co-Founder. Particularly if she is at what is essentially a co-founder speed dating event.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. I'm the founder and CEO of Celevity. Celine Halioua : I guess to give a little bit of context, I raised my seed as a solo founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. 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.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

As the founder of a company that builds products, it’s important to Aidan that he monetizes their own products sustainably, and without relying on capture of user data. So how does this work in the realm of technology and the ubiquitous “free” app offerings?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. And as we looked at that and had discussions and examined what that meant, it really meant distributing the sense of ownership, just pushing it out and opening it up and trying to enable anyone else to do this as well. Can we do it in more cities?"

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 5, 2020

And I have heard from a number of US crypto projects that have been abandoned by the founders because of regulatory threats to their business. This is particularly true in crypto that often operates with distributed teams, an open source spirit and on the idea of global currencies. Crypto needs to be regulated.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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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. At least in the consumer & business web.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

A business model diagram also shows how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. As a founder you start out with: 1) a vision of a product with a set of features, 2) a series of hypotheses about all the pieces of the business model: Who are the customers/users? Who are our partners?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. Leveraged distribution channels.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When I first wrote about ‘creative automation’ Dall-E wasn’t open for beta users, and while the tech of generative text to image AI existed, it wasn’t widely distributed. has released Stable Diffusion as the first truly open source text-to-image. Creative AI for books?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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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. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. High Quality, and open sourced!

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