VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Ravn Systems automates the (repetitive, boring) review of documents in legal workloads; Bitproof’s Peter is an AI legal assistant that can request signatures, generate contracts and notarise documents; and Premonition.ai

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Open: most importantly, Lightning is an open, permissionless network. As Chris Dixon documents in his seminal essay on Why Decentralization Matters , open networks always ultimately win. Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut. Anyone can use it. 6) Identity Issuance .

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Simon Phipps Subscribe to this blog About Author Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is now at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. It led to software applications that by default were complex, brittle and heavy. It took many, many years for that doom to be made reality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

So if someone says, ‘You need comprehensive documentation for software documentation,’ I think, ‘Well, what if you didn’t have any documentation at all? They did it all open-source, so from an ethos point of view it was opposite, and from an infrastructure point of view it was all cloud and modern like you would expect.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

As Peter Thiel documented in detail, the last wave of late 2000s cleantech VC excitement ended in a trough of despair as many of the more well-funded companies went bust (with the notable exception of a few big winners like Tesla, SunRun, and Opower). 3) Innovation in Financial Engineering .

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

Google App Engine? Layer 4: empowering the business engineer. But basically any big IT player has an offering, like  Microsoft Windows Azure ,  Google Compute Engine , and  IBM SmartCloud , to name a few. There is middleware that focuses on facilitating compute, like application servers, process and rule engines, etc.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Many database engineers have gone so far as to invent RDF in one form or another. For these engineers, the RDF standard, and out-of-the-box RDF databases, allow them to buy this part of their solution rather than build it. In RDF, a document (e.g., The familiar XML tools (e.g., Weve seen similar, but less dramatic, "aha!"

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. The IPO offering document became the playbook for startups. The payoff: in this bubble, a startup can actively “engineer for an acquisition.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How about documentation that nobody reads? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. To turn data into learning, you have to focus on the few key pieces of data the everyone agrees are important.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2010

While they like sites like Stack Overflow and Github’s wiki pages on different open source projects, Nate and Natty never found a great site on the web that has comprehensive documentation on how to program. As dry as it might be, they waded through the Rails API , the jQuery API , and even the WC3 documentation.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. He says that intentional Web 2.0 A keyword is not a brand, where there’s emotional connection with the words.” Is It Sticky?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Most discussion about innovation of defense systems acquisition using an agile process starts with writing a requirements document. Our goal is to open-source this class to other universities and create the 21 st Century version of Tech ROTC.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# Kayserian believes they will.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

And as I mentioned last week , Fenwick & West and Andreessen Horowitz released the Series Seed model documents. The standardized seed funding document movement is great and I fully support it. I have and will continue to use these document sets when a client requests. Clients come better prepared now.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

It's very hard for PLG to be the only or main motion with infrastructure products because it's not something one engineer will just test and buy. What's the best way to do a kind of documentation? They have a hurdle because it usually requires an engineer to set it up and then you can use it. What's the best way to do design?

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

And as I mentioned last week , Fenwick & West and Andreessen Horowitz released the Series Seed model documents. The standardized seed funding document movement is great and I fully support it. I have and will continue to use these document sets when a client requests. Clients come better prepared now.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Igor Balamut is providing services as a Senior Symfony PHP Engineer at Transformify, a Workforce & Vendor Management System. Stripe, Payoneer, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, DigiSigner, … Integration of Software Services: Open API. Igor, what do you think about the technology empowering vendor management systems ( VMS)?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation. It wasn’t always this way.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Clearspring just did this; they held a Big Data meetup and were pretty open about trying to recruit engineers — which was a smart move in a target rich environment they created inside their own office. open source. Oracle Documentation. That would get my attention, and the attention of others like me.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. You should both also document your work, even if it’s just light documentation. Research the cost of advertising your product.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I’ll discuss what skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation youll need, and much more. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Do you want them to be producing technology such as happens in the open source world? You may need your product and engineering teams to be involved. So these people tend to write documentation or tend to advocate what you’re doing. So for example, do you want people to be performing advocacy?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 25, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Flowplayer – open source flash video player that allows you to customize the player for your embedded video and create a branded player – a step up from simple YouTube embeds for serious video experience. .

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Software Engineering. source code version control Folder backups by date VSS and beginning CVS/SVN user Proficient in using CVS and SVN features. Good knowledge of editors, debuggers, IDEs, open source alternatives etc. Reads tech/programming/software engineering blogs and listens to podcasts regularly. Knowledge.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

For those who care, the sweet spot for Microsoft is to buy a more engineering and technology focused company versus a sales and marketing oriented one. This was surprising to Steve and also may be indicative of how many of the tech players have been snapping up interesting engineering teams and products before they really get to market.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

To build the best and most flexible solutions, engineers can be much more effective if we work closely with people across many departments, possibly including product, sales, business development, customer success and more. As an engineer, I can leverage both their strengths and my own to build the best possible solutions for our customers.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Currently, you work on one unit of material like a document, presentation or email at a time. As an open-source enthusiast, he developed the open-source Money Manager Ex personal finance software. Madhan holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boston University.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology. Provides real-time access to data insights based on the collaborative knowledge of system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers throughout the world.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. blogtronix – An enterprise social platform that includes blogs, wikis, documents and social media so that users in large and small organizations can collaborate and build communities inside and outside their company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Each five whys email is a teaching document. You can even read a cool paper one of our engineers wrote on this approach).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

They’re easy to use, you don’t need to be technical to get small tests running, and their new Stats Engine makes it harder for noobs to mess up tests. Stats Engine – Optimizely led the way when they launched stats engine earlier this year. Cons: Stats Engine – Their stats engine is both a pro and a con for us.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. We were combining Stanford Engineering theory with ESL design engineers and implementing it with chips so new we were debugging the silicon as we were debugging the entire system. Taking concepts that had been only abstract Ph.D

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

The web that we are all used to is a web of documents where we search for things inside of documents. Five years ago, the open-source Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) project was started to create software to enable a new type of wiki-based environment based on these principles. You may be very skeptical or even call bullsh**.

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