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Snyk, from first check to leader in dev-friendly open source security

BeyondVC

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Snyk, which is a developer-first security solution that helps companies use open source code and stay secure. in open source world where much of it is third party code. Snyk investor deck late 2015 short from Ed Sim. Dev first business model with budget from security?

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Why You Need More Than Just Open-Source

YoungUpstarts

In 2016, the Open Source Drives Digital Innovation study commissioned by Red-Hat and conducted by analyst house Forrester revealed that 52% of CIOs and senior IT decision makers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are already tapping open source software in areas such as cloud, mobility, big data and DevOps.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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Generative AI and the exponential growth of content

VC Cafe

Click on ‘source’ below to download a clickable PDF. The Artificial Creativity Landscape ( source ). In October 27, Stable Diffusion had more than 1 million downloads on Hugging Face. We just crossed 1,000,000 downloads of Stable Diffusion on the @huggingface hub! Such a milestone!

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

download a PDF of this article here ). But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. Massive Data Sets.

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Five Keys To Remote Business Success Every Founder Needs To Know In 2021

YoungUpstarts

The majority of today’s threats come from hackers tricking users into clicking on fake websites, opening email links, or downloading unnecessary “utilities” in order to extract information and gain system access. Consider using premium paid or open source software whenever possible.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community. Founded in 2013 and originally from Seoul, Korea, Spoon claims to have over 20 million downloads and raised a total of $60M, most recently $40M series B in Dec 2019.

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