SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Every industry that requires humans to create original work—from social media to gaming, advertising to architecture, coding to graphic design, product design to law, marketing to sales—is up for reinvention. The application landscape, while still in the early stages, seems to be rapidly growing. How far can this tech go?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

With this pace of change accelerating, everyone will have to move earlier in the food chain; corporates will need to work with earlier stage startups (we are experiencing that phenomenon in our portfolio) and VCs will have to go earlier to invest in those founders before they take off.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. event I did last fall.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

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. They come with literally thousands of design templates and plugins.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

by Rachel Strella, founder of Strella Social Media. Some tips for helping you get you there include: Have a good website to serve as your business’s online hub (ideally, one with an Open-source CMS that’s feature-rich and offers the opportunity to take advantage of integrations, such as those for SEO and social media).

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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.&# To that I say baloney. Start a blog.

Software Review 65

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I find many CEOs/CFOs default to approaching the investors who have the most social media followers; who have spent the most money sponsoring events; or whom they met at an event. A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Price Is Right: For Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs To Be | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1j0ToYh. 10 Useful jQuery plugins from Github – crowdspring.co/SaCwZo.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

John Jantsch: Well, and I think a lot of people, especially with the onslaught of social media, I think a lot of people, a lot of businesses have thought about, “Yeah, I need to build my following. Do you want them to be producing technology such as happens in the open source world? ” Jono Bacon: Yep.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance.  I’ve attached version 2.0 That would be my suggestion.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Those early donors are simply personal connections of the project creator: “Friends and family funding plays a key role in the early stages of fundraising. Crowdfunding communities are no different.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

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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. Posted by: Dave | September 10, 2007 7:44 AM Hey Peter.

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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. Fred Wilson has done this for the NY startup scene but of course you also have mass media located there.

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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. Jobs Welcome to Mashable!

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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 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. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Have an account?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook iPhone 4S Media Summit. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Erica Swallow.

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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. This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Don’t wait to see a job posting : Actual startup job postings may not show up for quite some time, especially among those in the early stage. Rather than waiting to see if they’ll pop up, get engaged with the startup early on to express your interest. It’s a bold move, one that got him noticed, and hired, by the startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I don't really have any social media, or read a lot of the news frankly because I feel like a lot of it is overblown and a lot of it is just wrong and there's very little accountability as to who is right about what, and a lot of it seems to be just over blowing. I really believed in selling hardware. I liked having something physical.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

At Remagine Ventures we started investing in the generative AI space very early back in 2019. Several of our limited partners are media and entertainment strategics: broadcasters, publishers, telcos etc, so content creation, distribution and monetisation has always been close to our core focus.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So a lot of incumbent business software companies did what a lot of big companies actually did and other industries, media companies after the dot-com crash, which is they said, “Oh, thank God we don’t have to worry about this Internet thing. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. There is nothing more valuable,in the early stages of a startup, than smart users. Theonly kind of software you can build without studying users is the sort for which you are the typical user.

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