Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. As part of each of the classes we open source our educators guide here.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

It took me all of 45 minutes to setup the program—I wrote up a syllabus for 5 sessions, solicited feedback from a dozen or so product managers I knew (most of whom volunteered to speak), and called up Micah at the NYU/Poly Incubator to get the space. 3) Open source your real estate. No revenues, no costs.

New York 116

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution.

Lean 160

Lean Government Agile Africa 160

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. As part of each of the classes we open source our educators guide here.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

Massachusetts 113

Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Accelerators, hubs, cafes, open-sourcing, crowd-souring, maker spaces, Chief Innovation Officers, etc. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.) Innovation sourcing : a list of problems/challenges, ideas, and technologies that might be worth investing in.

Community 212

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset. RW : Tell me about Founder.org. After more than two decades of no doubt killing yourself working crazy hours at startups, why the interest in a non-profit? Just because university is expensive doesn’t mean it’s not valuable for young entrepreneurs.

Founder 60

Founder Entrepreneur North America Startup 60

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). From "Think and Grow Rich".

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

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.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

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?

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

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.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

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%. The Blurring of Investment Lines. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

The insights on customers and deployment methodologies have been fascinating, and I would like to hear your thoughts on co-founders & their relationships playing in to the other topics (for example, do you have the same 'no lone founders' rule that many of the incubators seem to adhere to?).

Lean 76

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 76

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 16, 2016

Techy types, particularly engineers, tend to be introverts. CPS is not a static framework, it’s an open source system and people are adding new tools all the time. Incubation needs to happen if you want breakthrough ideas. About the study: the fact that the test bed were technologists might skew results.

Framework 48

Framework Incubator Texas Design 48

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

On a more serious note, Gordon has a laundry list of founder qualities or experiences that will pique his curiosity: “Have a resume I envy and admire; make a significant contribution at a company I am fascinated by; write a great book or make a great game or TV show; [develop] significant software engineering experience and/or education.&#

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Pinterest is probably the best tool for this, given its robust database of high-quality images, but you can also use e-commerce sites like Etsy or a simple image search on one of the major search engines. Open Source Lists.

Naming 104

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 104

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing. Revolutions are not obvious when they happen.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. Where is it going? VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

Restful 222

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? These don't come with titles.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Open Source Lists. October 3, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Holiday Lists.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. A smaller grouping of red circles on the SFBT map near AT&T Park on Third and King streets covers Multimedia Gulch, the major hub for start-ups during the first dot-com boom of the 1990s.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source).

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53