Version One Ventures

JULY 2, 2019

And last but not least, we announced our investment in Celo , an open-sourced crypto-powered global payment platform. Shippo announced their UPS Ready Program and Fedex Compatible partnerships. Abstract released their SDK , so that you can start building your dream integrations.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

In all the interviews you've read about founders' success, how many credit their MBA program? And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. How many even have MBAs? We work hard. We're cheaper.

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Intellectual Property Bootstrapping Software Review Open Source 319

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. His goal is to teach us how to drive a culture of continuous innovation into every work environment.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 285

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Legal docs don’t have to be a source of stress when you’re trying to set up a business. Don’t use these documents blindly ” Taylor Wessing – offers a suite of seed investment documents which are available on an open-source basis. All docs are here: [link].

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Chae talks about the why his smile is his superpower, the promise of an open-source smart home, how to know when it’s time to start a business. Our team was very much excited by the news that Apple, Google, and Amazon are teaming up to develop an open-source smart home standard.

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South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. His goal is to teach us how to drive a culture of continuous innovation into every work environment.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 413

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

and the ones who say, "Okay, we’ve got to get with the program here."? The fact is, that between agile, lean, open-source, teal, and dozens of other philosophies of work out there, there are a lot of principles floating around--a lot of wisdom and aphorisms and ways of thinking and mindsets.

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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. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 One of the fundamental benefits of being so active in building the FoundersPad accelerator (a 12-week, Lean Startup program focused on customer development) is working with the cohort participants on refining their business models. The Bend Experience. Lessons Learned.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? Collaboration programs make it easy to communicate with your employees and client online. 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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Software Review Entrepreneur Cost Cofounder 191

The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The open platform showcases candidates’ creations, free to inspect and critique. Well-kept GitHub profiles exemplify one’s breadth and expertise in various programming languages and their contributions to open source and side projects, exemplify programmers’ eagerness to create. Fortunately, writing paid off.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Open metaverse: these are the decentralized platforms built on crypto, such as Manticore Games, Sandbox or Decentraland and many others. Think loyalty programs 3.0. An interesting case is Minecraft. We look at both metaverse categories and believe that both will have a place in our digital world. Gaming / Entertainment / Social.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. 1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. Viktor Marohni? A look at how CMS evolved.

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PHP Management HTML Framework 143

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. Reddit - Specifically the programming, business and startup sub-redits. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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Technical Review Austin North America Software Review 75

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Similarly, Techstars Austin is a force to be reckoned with.

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Early Stage Austin Silicon Valley Texas 48

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. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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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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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. Nowadays Kent is programming again, this time at Facebook, which he describes: “It''s a laboratory.

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Lean San Francisco Cofounder Programming 165

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers. A rival company has launched a competing version based on its underlying open-source code.

API 60

API Software Review Technical Review Startup 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Inside of companies these are the mavericks you want to fire for not getting with program. When a Horizon 2 or 3 program finds success, it can either grow on its own (and hence become their own divisions) or the founders and early employees may get folded back into a Horizon 1 organization that will scale the program.

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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. Who is this program for and why does it exist? 350 billion of this money is dedicated to small businesses under a loan program called the PPP (payroll protection plan). payroll protection. It depends.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. 3) Open source your real estate.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Founder.org founder Michael Baum. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset. Student teams compete to participate in our program.

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Founder Entrepreneur North America Startup 60

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). That’s no secret.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.) This explosive growth has in no small part been due to the popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (or UFC) league, brought to the forefront in the past decade through the entertaining, if testosterone-heavy, Ultimate Fighter reality program on the Spike cable TV channel.

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Sweat Equity Technical Review Software Review Austin 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. First, management must understand that innovation happens not by exception but is integral to all parts of the firm.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Today, if you’re building an entrepreneurship program, the teaching team most often includes adjuncts with entrepreneurial experience as complements to the tenured faculty, classes are experiential and the community you’re building is a set of additional components that never existed before. Can it be self-directed?

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program. Founders: Well-rounded founder teams >1 person, demonstrated understanding of entrepreneurship, relevant technical and business knowledge. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program. Founders: Well-rounded founder teams >1 person, demonstrated understanding of entrepreneurship, relevant technical and business knowledge. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

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Technical Review Dallas Seed Capital Angel Investor 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Building Your Business on Open Source Data 10:00 am at Galvanize Featuring Data.world co-founder and CTO Bryon Jacob, this panel will explore the increasingly important role of open source data science in the startup economy. How can you leverage open source data science tools to build your business?

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Austin Pakistan South America Open Source 77

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models?

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