Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

Patents are counter to open source initiatives and free software. The free and growing open source software community, which covers most mobile and web apps, oppose software patents as impeding or prohibiting the distribution of free software. Rather than protection, this can be seen as a tax on innovation.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

A ttempting to create a comprehensive list of free and open source tools will probably always remain ‘work in progress’ just for the sheer depth and breadth of the Internet. Open source. Open source. Open source. video distribution platform. Open source.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2013

Hadoop , an open source framework for storing and processing large volumes of diverse data on a scalable cluster of servers that has pretty much emerged as the preferred platform for managing big data, itself promises to be able to keep pace with big data’s rapid evolution, so it’s no surprise to see Intel leap onto the bandwagon.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

.&# I’ve invested in several companies that seem to fit within this categorization, including SimpleGeo , Gnip , and BigDoor , but we don’t really think about them as “data as a service&# companies (SimpleGeo and Gnip are in our Glue theme; BigDoor is in our Distribution theme).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

A ttempting to create a comprehensive list of free and open source tools will probably always remain ‘work in progress’ just for the sheer depth and breadth of the Internet. Open source. Open source. Open source. video distribution platform. Open source.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Attempting to create a comprehensive list of free and open source tools will probably always remain ‘work in progress’ just for the sheer depth and breadth of the Internet. Open source. Open source. Open source. video distribution platform. Open source.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

A ttempting to create a comprehensive list of free and open source tools will probably always remain ‘work in progress’ just for the sheer depth and breadth of the Internet. Open source. Open source. Open source. video distribution platform. Open source.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Hockeyapp – For collecting crash reports from mobile devices and distributing apps for some platforms. Your mileage may vary.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. If you want to release your software as open source, release the bit (or a bit) that doesn’t have intrinsic business value.

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VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2023

AI Snapshots by Google Search Open Source vs. Closed LLMs Google and OpenAI are the two leading players in the LLM space. Open-source LLMs, such as Meta’s LLaMa, MosaicML , Vicuna -13B (an open-source alternative to GPT-4 which reportedly achieves 90% of ChatGPT’s quality) or RedPajama (which released a 1.2

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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. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.).

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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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Some of our latest investments in NYC include founders building companies in serverless, open source data streaming, decentralized biometric security, splunk for customer data, and developer productivity for dynamic code testing. There will be more deep enterprise tech startups founded, funded, launched, and scaled out of NYC in 2018.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 23, 2019

As an entrepreneur who lives at the intersection of the digital and the physical, the public and the private, the open-source and the proprietary data networks, incentives are something I take very seriously. Open-Source Solutions. The move towards open data networks is ultimately a positive development for innovation.

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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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Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

I’ve been at LinkedIn for four months now, and this day gives me the perfect excuse to write a post about two things I love about this place: open source code and big data. Open source: I think LinkedIn has contributed some great open-source products to the world. IndexTank , of course.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 31, 2019

But even once you’re producing and distributing episodes, you can’t expect to jump to the top of the iTunes charts. Audacity is an open-source program that is widely used by both first-time showrunners and Top 100 shows. In a nutshell, a podcast host stores and distributes your episodes. Find A Hosting Service.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 26, 2021

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. . You’ve probably heard the phrase “Talent is equally distributed. Opportunity is not.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. Fourth and finally is disruptive innovation – this is the innovation we associate with startups.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2019

There are plenty of open source software and commercial software solutions that DevOps teams are using to accelerate app development. Open source solutions will be free or inexpensive but may take more time on the front end to configure and customize. Time, as they say, is money. Kubernetes.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2020

Thanks to the distributed nature, you will check the signatures across ledgers on all nodes in the network and confirm no one changed anything. It disrupts current power imbalances and open industry to the broader retail sector. Blockchain tech is a decentralized and open source. Independent Energetics.

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

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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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Version One Ventures

MARCH 20, 2014

In the design phase, we believe that hardware engineering will follow a similar path as the open source software community that built GitHub. The next big thing in hardware: Commoditizing production and distribution platforms (gigaom.com). Upverter launches paid accounts for private hardware hacking (venturebeat.com).

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Aidan: This may be because of the intangible quality of apps and software: when something isn’t physically manufactured and distributed, it can be difficult to see why it should cost money.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

Coinbase launched Rosetta, an open-source specification and set of tools that makes integrating with blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable. Lolli closed an oversubscribed $3 million Seed II round and continues to add partners weekly. . Product Launches, Accolades and Other News. You can read more here.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As the tools are being democratised (from OpenAI’s invite-only approach to Stable Diffusion’s open source disruption), new APIs are making it possible for developers to create novel products using these technologies. But they are about to get very empowered.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. They will owned by the individuals (rather than a company), powered by open source software and backed up by machine learning. We’ll train them like dogs and they’ll be our personal life assistant.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 5, 2020

This is particularly true in crypto that often operates with distributed teams, an open source spirit and on the idea of global currencies. Ideas, teams and capital are more fluid than ever before.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). In the sector of internet-enabled services where a majority of the Micro VC investment has transpired, startups can fundamentally do more with less. That’s no secret.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2016

Despite a meager track record for generating outsized returns, investors keep piling money into open source start-ups. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a minimum of 110 “open source startups” had raised more than $7 billion from venture capitalists as of 2015, up over 100% since 2013. Its reward?

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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 See Five Things Meme as an example. event I did last fall.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Or even contribute to an open source project. Mint & finances #distribution #andalsoproduct # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 3: Build brand buzz to epic proportions, aka a Purple Cow, ie. toolbars in browsers #distribution # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 1: Have a core part of your product become more useful with friends, ie.

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