Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk was founded in 2015 with the mission to help developers make their code secure. 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.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

Some common themes from the discussion: Know Where You Are Going Before you can possibly make a choice around language and framework you need to ask all the important questions that are talked about in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and Startup CTO or Developer.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

The Startup Success Podcast – After the demise of The Micro-ISV Show, Bob Walsh is back discussing issues affecting software startups. Open Source, For-Profit Startups – “FairSoftware is the place to start and grow your online business. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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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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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

There are traits that successful founders possess that tend to be weaker or absent in people who are never quite able to make it work. So today I want to focus on a handful of lesser known traits that will contribute to your success as a founder. Successful founders don’t tend to waste time.

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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? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors. The Dream Team. Common vision.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Mik Kersten’s new book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework [IT Revolution Press, November 2018], based on two decades of research, spanning almost every domain of software delivery. Before Tasktop, I spent a decade building open source software development tools.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

but this engineering perspective has the advantage of being right, insofar as their software really does enable this: What’s attracting this level of investment says Jakob Freund, co-founder and CEO at Camunda, is the company is solving a problem that goes beyond pure automation.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

GitHub can be a fantastic resume for software developers. The open platform showcases candidates’ creations, free to inspect and critique. Several followers offered me a job and introductions to other founders. And this is where GitHub shines. Fortunately, writing paid off. I ended up having more than enough opportunity.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. No small task Ben.

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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. PCF integrates an expansive set of critical, modern software technologies to provide a turnkey cloud-native platform.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. The effort that went into making all those unused features was wasted.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ. 12 Qualities To Look For In A Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1m97mzy. The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7.

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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. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

An Interview With Twitter’s Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. This analysis on Facebook open sourcing data center/hardware seems to miss the point – [link]. Who are we?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Founder of JackCards.com. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events. President of The Tech Museum. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Oh sure, founders work 60-80-hour weeks, but not employees. Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow).

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Software By Rob

JULY 31, 2009

Hierarchy of the Successful Independent Software Developer – Freelancer -> Consultant -> MicroISV -> Micropreneur. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Entrepreneurs With ‘Founder’s Disease’ Will Make Any Investor Run Away – [link]. 41 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know – [link]. Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family – [link]. 5 Ways to Alienate a Customer – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Lesser Known Traits of Successful Founders – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. A brief history: 35 years of open source software – [link]. Guess What? Programmers can #JFDI it too! – [link].

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Founder of JackCards.com. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events. President of The Tech Museum. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Speaking of tattoos – Interview with @micah , CEO & co-founder of Graphic.ly – [link]. The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. nice infographic) – [link].

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