VC Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2011

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. Continue reading →

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. As a result, we carefully choose to invest in good brands and operators that we believe can execute on their plan with the help of a reliable and flexible capital partner.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2011

From punk acts, pirate DJs on a sea fort, graffiti, remixes, disco, open-source software, to the growing hip-hop movement, The Pirate’s Dilemma painstakingly traces the origins of the different movements and the key players in those scenes. How does one navigate the treacherous waters of this “brave new world&# ?

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Software Review Technical Review Open Source Software 157

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As Balaji Srinivasan explains , many people will choose to operate under different pseudonyms for different intellectual and economic pursuits (the rise of Finstas and pseudonyms like Pierre Delecto aka Mitt Romney in the legacy world are further evidence of this trend). . Ambitious open source operating systems/app store alternatives (e.g.

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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.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? The rest is history.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Payments are commonly delayed for a grace period of 12-36 months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What we do is try to help make sure that the way of working—the operating system, the culture, the organization's design—is well-matched to that challenge. Because right now we mostly operate on a factory model from a hundred years ago, which is all about the linear. So you need to be conscious of the context you're operating in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

these solutions can be paired with the cultural adoption of process and operational excellence at companies looking to improve the way their business performs. Camunda’s software is based on open source software, and based on important standards like BPMN for processes and DMN for decisions. a process mining software company?—?for

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2022

DeepPavlov.ai, is the team behind the open-source Conversational AI stack designed to enable faster and easier chatbots and AI-assistants’ development. We spoke to twenty startup founders and CTOs from the edtech, fintech, automation, and consulting markets. What is the Stumbling Block .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. If you can’t see the Helmsman 2-minute video click her. He runs H4X Labs.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. Along with my partner Stuart Lander, who runs operations at Upfront and is a former lawyer, we have scoured through, debated and helped scores of companies make this determination.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

by Clarence Wooten , founder of VentureFund.io and Progress.ly. Many founders read the daily headlines on TechCrunch announcing that…. Or, you’re a founder with a prior successful exit under your belt that produced significant returns for your investors. and wonder to themselves, “Why can’t I do that?” Don’t pitch.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. In my experience founders usually fall into one of three types: mercenaries, missionaries, and crusaders.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. By then the open-source movement had really developed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. I'm the founder and CEO of Celevity. Here's my conversation with Curative. Celine Halioua : Hi, I'm Celine Halioua.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. I haven’t met a single founder has hasn’t raved about their experience working with Jon Callaghan, Phil Black or Tony Conrad.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? You don’t have to worry at all about the space, as the operator will manage it. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. Don’t have the money to rent a good office space yet?

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. This can often lead to introductions to suitable people, or into networks where you can find a technical co-founder.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

There will also be the few new SaaS app founders who have incredible domain expertise reinventing pieces of the old guard public SaaS companies. I also remember the journey the founders were taking on when they decided to sell into P&L units at Fortune 500s charged with making a more agile company.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” You name it.”

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. Here are a few success stories of business angels, investors and managers who dared to invest their time and cash ( source: [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

And if they’re smart they’ll teach Horizon 1 teams to operate with mission and intent , not just process and procedure.). They operate with speed and urgency to find a repeatable and scalable business model. Horizon 1 operates on goals and incentives. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. You can see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks And Frank and I having come from tech said, "Oh, why don't we just open source this and we'll make it available for everyone?" Can we do it in more cities?"

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ). What’s in Enterprise 2022.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

The Global AI Index ( source ) To date, AI21 Labs is the only Israeli startup developing LLMs (it raised an impressive $64M in July 2022 ), and most of the companies operating in this space are in the application layer or the tooling/infrastructure layer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. When the speed of how businesses operated changed forever. The effort that went into making all those unused features was wasted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? We made an image browser with thumbnail previews so you didn't have to open each file individually to see what it was. (In In the 90's, y'all, before that was built into all the operating systems!)

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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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 a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

He also built a number of key open source libraries used by many large Internet companies around the world (see ). Web Browsers are becoming our new Operating Systems (i.e. At first, only the founders will see the vision, but by carrying forward with loving and committed intentions and actions, more people will see the vision.

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