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. There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world.

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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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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.) Horizon 3 is focused on unknown business models. Horizon 1 is the company’s core business.

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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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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

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

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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. The application landscape, while still in the early stages, seems to be rapidly growing.

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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. Version One is co-leading this investment with Golden Venture Partners, and joined by several angel investors.

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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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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. So assessing fit is critical. What should the firm do?

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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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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. And it shows your company’s cost structures, how each department interacts with the others and where your company fits with other companies or partners to implement your business. Who are our partners?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Ouya is an open source Android-based gaming platform that is looking to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. This year, the company partnered with HP and plans on embedding the motion-control technology on future HP devices. Evolution and innovation continue in 2013, unabated and unafraid.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

They might flock to new, open source solution, to reduce platform fees and increase their share. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP. ” Eric Feng.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Winding Tree drives the development of open source protocols for the travel industry, starting with ORG.ID, a global registry of business entities that streamlines access to APIs in an automated and secure way without the need for third parties.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2011

million in seed, 2008) and Bessemer Venture Partners, Giza Venture Capital and Proxima Ventures ($6.2 Soluto won Techcrunch Disrupt last year, and has raised approximately $7 million to date from Proxima Ventures ($1.6 million in Series A Nov 2009).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

In preparation for the new fund, we have enhanced our enterprise team by adding two new partners through the draft and free agency. While at MIT, Ajay co-authored papers related to distributed systems, storage and secure processing. At Lightspeed, we have taken a similar approach to building our organization over the years.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

At this point, you could use a free Open Source stack which would accelerate development. In fact, it’s been famously written by Chris Dixon, now a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, that 10 million users is the new 1 million users. The qualitative bar for the team, idea, and market was high.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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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. Is there a similar product that already exists that perhaps you can partner with? (ie. it doesnt exist) and work with them to build something that they would partner with you on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I think the other thing that sort of made me jump pretty early on the testing is we had been setting up this clinical trial with a partner for probably about six months, with a collaborator who had typically been incredibly responsive and would jump on the phone at a moment's notice. We were supposed to have the kickoff meeting.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. Typically, to partner with the innovator on the first step, you need to find an entrepreneur.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc. In addition to distribution power, these kinds of relationships solve the “safe choice” concern of many buyers, and can transform your business.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). Registration rights.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Congrats to Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Compvis, @runwayml @StabilityAI , everyone who participated and the whole open-source community. Shutterstock is using Dall-e 2 and Getty partnered with Bria to help users generate stock photography from text prompts. That’s why I’m excited about the rise of open source.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You might not get a lot of notice right away but over time this will cause hundreds of potential partners to get to know you. You can unsubscribe at anytime and we promise not to spam or distribute your information. You could start a blog all about your idea and the struggle to bring it to fruition. Get started on a prototype anyway.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. After debts have been paid, the remaining assets and cash reserves should be distributed to the owners/members in proportion to ownership interest. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Sure, we kept bits of information private like our negotiations with future partners or plans for the next version, but it really didnt matter that much.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. The very first thing you'll see will be the distribution between desktop, mobile (smartphones) and tablets. Countly 's claim to fame is that it is open source (a free version is available along with paid ones).

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

He is a venture partner at True Ventures. We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar. accessibility. authenticity.

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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%. There are also others. But obviously I’m biased. I think some will do this.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team.

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