The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In the early stages of every technology, the market is usually dominated by products built for early adopters who are typically tech savvy – this mainly consists of developers who like to have full control over a product and its features. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. in Computer Science.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Lean is The Engine for the Ambidextrous Organization. Fast forward to today.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. in Computer Science.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Open source software or clone script is also available. As of June 2018, GitHub hosts 57 million open source project repositories. Social media marketing could also be effective during the early stages of your business. Search engine optimization (SEO) is very important to any online business.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Privacy engineering rules: We can’t go a week without a new data breach or privacy violation; Marriott, Google, Facebook and more. Either you’re a mega fund or an early stage fund, being caught in the middle is a place you don’t want to be. See a recent Business Insider article with more of my thoughts.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. are built on Drupal. Big boy applications. What is Drupal?

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# Engineering/QA.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Later, when the company was much larger, we had everyone on our engineering team agree to sit in on one usability test every month. It wasnt a huge time commitment, but it meant that every engineer was getting regular contact with an actual customer, which was invaluable. They just dont need another authority figure in their life.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects. Try Google.

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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 should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? So for early-stage founders, those are the two scenarios where PLG might be a great fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric. Tickets are available now and include dinner.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. And since I open source everything I do, you were the recipient of open source.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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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. Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc.

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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. But in the early stages it does require a reasonable chunk of work. So for example, do you want people to be performing advocacy?

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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. I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

Spoiler alert: I believe that 2024-2025 will be an amazing time to invest in early stage startups. While the majority of generative AI funding was concentrated in a few companies, we’re seeing a rapid rise of open source models, which remove the barriers for new startups which lack deep pockets, vast data and expensive engineers.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 7, 2005

You see, I have more often than not seen a number of early stage companies selling into enterprises but not selling high enough to the people with budget. Enter the web and the open source movement. When I look at a sales pipeline, I always want to know who in the organization the company is selling into and why.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Posted by: Peter Cooper | September 10, 2007 7:23 AM It wouldve been nice to hear a mention, or at least suggestion, of the role open source software plays in the development process - even if to say it shouldnt be used. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. This can have an enormous benefit to kick-starting a local startup community as it will ensure many more early-stage at-bats happen locally. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City?

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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%. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK.

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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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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? Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is applicable to other subscription businesses such as Open Source.) We practice it religiously in the engineering team at HubSpot and the insights are always there, highly valuable. Share: Posted in Building for Success , Sales & Marketing Machine , Startup Help.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I love running experiments on my own, and I'm really excited about, I don't really like the term "bio-hacking," but there's a lot of fun and educational biology and chemistry experiments you can do at home like I did some polymer synthesis and some basic yeast genetic engineering. Before that, I was an electronics engineer.

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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. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

You have probably seen a variety of posts from people who have access to Dall-E 2 or some other creative AI engine on social media. has released Stable Diffusion as the first truly open source text-to-image. If you’re an early stage founder inworking on something novel in this space, don’t hesitate to reach out!

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