techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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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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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

The name I chose is scovry and the website ( [link] ) that it goes to is a social media based search engine that displays results in a “spy” type format. Google Offers Free Wi-Fi in India to Access Social Networks. Open Source Lists. Top From Our Partners. The Stresses of Smartphones. Identity Lists.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said. We can start, as most startups do, with a single, central master DB.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. No ideas or prototypes.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research - new turtle mascot, open source code, cloud services from amazon, telescopes. One polling machine missing today.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research – new turtle mascot, open source code, cloud services from amazon, telescopes. One polling machine missing today.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

As I look across our portfolio, what is interesting is that while the comparative advantage of developing in say, India, was once 4 to 1 it is looking like it is more 2:1 or lower as you factor in costs like management overhead, travel, etc. We have always thought of India and China as places to offshore low-level development work.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. Where is it going? or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. In it theres meeting with a guru in India who defines what a guru really does.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

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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).

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