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| Page 1 of 5 | Previous | Next | STEVE BLANK NOVEMBER 27, 2012 Open Source Entrepreneurship teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. The Founder’s Workbook. Free: Startup Tools. The Lean LaunchPad course online. Find it here. | | | | | | |
| BEYONDVC JULY 7, 2010 EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. Luckily we had a number of large paying clients that allowed us to sustain ourselves with a little extra cash from the founders and my fund. Entrepreneurship Open Source | BEYONDVC JULY 7, 2010 EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. Luckily we had a number of large paying clients that allowed us to sustain ourselves with a little extra cash from the founders and my fund. Tags: Entrepreneurship Open Source | VINICIUS VACANTI SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 Can't Find a Technical Co-Founder? Do It Yourself This is the first part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. Disclaimer: If you know a great technical co-founder that wants to work with you, join them. Open source apps. | | | | | | | | |
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STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here. Expo SF (May. MORE >> -
 Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: Why are you Still Making.
Open Source to the Rescue The more I delve into the bevy of open source tools and frameworks the more Im stunned when I see poorly executed applications. Below I discuss some of the challenging problems developers face and the open source toolkits that exist to help us solve them. Open Source to the. MORE >> -
VC CAFE | SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2012  How to Find Startup Co-Founders Online and in the Real World
So how do you go about finding co- founders and early members of your startup? VC Cafe took a look at the most promising sources for finding co- founders, both in the “real world” and online. . Who are the co- founders and what have they previously done? 1) Weekend hackathons . 2) Online tools. 3) Events. MORE >> -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012  The Forgotten Founder: YouSendIt’s Khalid Shaikh
In Silicon Valley offices , the framed founder's doodle is as common as jewel-toned furniture and quirky conference-room names. Shaikh was having a conference call with his two co- founders to discuss it. Mahler had met one of the other co- founders, Shaikh's older brother, Amir. The co- founders decided to get more funding. MORE >> -
VC CAFE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011  Bitcoin is Here to Stay and Safebit Wants to Be Its Wallet
Using P2P technology Bitcoin is built on open source software which enables the use of this currency. As Open source is not always the prettiest software to look at, Israeli entrepreneurs Eli Sklar and Or Perelman came up with Safebit , an elegant cross platform Bitcoin Wallet/Vault. That’s where Bitcoin comes. MORE >>
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- New Rules for the New Internet Bubble STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011
- VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding! BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009
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- AskBob: I feel like the tech world has moved on without me. What do I do? 47 HATS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012
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- The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011
- Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started ONSTARTUPS | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
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- How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? STARTUP COMPANY LAWYER | SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2010
- Like anything else, we need to practice startups JOEL.IS | SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2011
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