Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Finally we can use the open-source lean classes from the National Science Foundation I-Corps and the Stanford/Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes to run Horizon 3 projects.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.”

Vermont 165

Vermont Startup Campaign Virginia 165

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Rather than depending just on SEO, marketers will need to optimize picture sitemaps and employ descriptive filenames for photos that are identified by search engines. Now, open source and low code tools make it easier for developers and product teams to start experimenting and executing AI/ML into their own products and processes.

Artificial Inteligence 110

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 110

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Tesla Motors announced yesterday it has opened its patent portfolio in hopes of encouraging other companies to create new electric vehicles. In a blog post, CEO Elon Musk said this was done “In the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.”

Intellectual Property 200

Intellectual Property California Open Source Portfolio 200

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Through these experiences, I discovered my passion for leadership development and championed it into University of Toronto Engineering in two ways: a program that equips graduate students with leadership theory and practice, and what is now an institute for leadership education in engineering – the first of its kind in Canada.

Venture Capital 144

Venture Capital San Jose San Francisco Bankruptcy 144

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

An irrepressible leader, Alfred was soon promoted to run all of engineering. By revolutionizing the enterprise computing market with the Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement.

Acquisition 78

Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

I'm thinking of how to give them a portfolio of skills, rather than just be happy they are an engineer or a teacher or a plumber.). Engineering, economics, and neuroscience are also helpful. Before you graduate, try to write a paper about your research or release a piece of open source code. Discipline. (Be

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Analytics Marketing Campaign 60

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. In addition to cost quotes, also ask for time quotes so you can get a feel for how long the project should take to implement. We are where you are.

Technical Cofounder 41

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Formlabs, makers of a high-resolution 3D printer aimed at engineers and design professionals. Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies. RedBearLab, which makes a wearable BlueTooth 4.0

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

BeyondVC

JANUARY 7, 2005

While it is imporant to court developers and technologists in the sales process since they typically have to give the technical buy-off and can just as easily squash an opportunity, it is not a great and economical use of time to have your most expensive direct sales resources and sales engineers doing this.

Sales 60

Sales Developer Open Source Early Stage 60

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. At OpenView, we try to instill this discipline and capability in each of our portfolio companies from Day 1.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

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.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. One measure of CincyTech’s overall impact is that in 2013, its portfolio companies represent 80% of total seed and early stage capital invested in Southwest Ohio. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Welcome to the future. What Does a City Need to Compete?

Silicon Valley 390

Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. MagSuite – An open source marketing automation, sales force automation, accounting, service automation and inventory control system. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine. With a Taste Engine, you don’t search by what you’re looking for, you search by what you like. Films inspire us. Our project.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. Our generative AI portfolio includes HourOne , a text to video solution that enables companies to create high quality presenter-led video from text without the need of a camera.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 78

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Alexia Tsotsis: What about startups that aren’t in your portfolio, because you said that only 10, 15 companies a year are responsible for 97 percent of the returns. Which enterprise companies that aren’t in your portfolio are you interested in?

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 14, 2016

Last year, I open sourced the list and with graduation season coming, I thought I would share an updated version, again organized by geography. Full disclosure: Flybridge portfolio companies are hyperlinked. Feedback welcome! I'm sure I made many mistakes and omissions.

LP 20

LP Startup DC 20

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 14, 2016

Last year, I open sourced the list and with graduation season coming, I thought I would share an updated version, again organized by geography. Full disclosure: Flybridge portfolio companies are hyperlinked. Feedback welcome! I'm sure I made many mistakes and omissions.

LP 20

LP Startup DC 20

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 14, 2021

DeFi is rebuilding the financial system with an open source approach and composability at its core, making it possible to combine one money lego block with other money lego blocks to create a much more sophisticated financial system. And the most successful founders in this space will be engineers, not salespeople.

Finance 78

Finance Portfolio Open Source Differentiation 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Coinbase Ventures (founded 2012) – the crypto wallet and one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges launched Coinbase Ventures in 2018 to invest in startups building the ‘open financial system’ According to recent reports , Coinbase ventures has already made 50 investments, only 12 of them in tokens.

Balance Sheet 201

Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

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. for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. See how it works?

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

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. Finally, personally and professionally, pay attention to investment opportunities.

Global 120

Global Offshore India China 120

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