Government, IP and Open Source

Has Blockchain Fever Died Down In 2018?

YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2018

There has been a lot of speculation around cryptocurrencies and this has in many ways obscured the fact the blockchain, the open-source and decentralized ledger that drives these digital currencies has the potential of radically transforming how ownership is verified.

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Technical Review IP Database

Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. Governance. Flexible VC offers you this. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait for a curriculum change or some government grant money to come through (although they just got Kaufmann money for it). 3) Open source your real estate. They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program. 2) Eliminate the friction by empowering your people.

New York

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City

Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard. Will they accept an open-source state channel? Governments will not stand for it, but it doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution. But why isn’t this happening?

Open Source

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Corporate Bad Activity Against Innovators

Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2014

But that’s just one category of bad activity that falls in the “incumbents trying to use government regulation to control their industry and suppress innovation.” Virtual Legality: Legal Letters Claim Oculus VR Made The Oculus Rift Using ZeniMax IP. Please don’t pretend that you are surprised.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Acquisition IP Open Source

How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital

Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. I really believed in selling hardware. Eric Ries : Yeah.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology

How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history. Dont do what we did.

Startup

Startup Cofounder Software Stock

Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands. It is important governments don’t simply provide healthcare, education, defence and the like. This was a seismic shift from where we had been and it has defined the government economic playbook.

Government

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review

Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). We also talk about the issue of net neutrality, how we believe the issue isn’t as black and white as some people believe, and the implications of government intervention even if they do so with the best intentions.

Angel Investor

Angel Investor Cofounder Southern California .Net

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java

Java PHP Software Review Coder

Generative AI that can do WHAT?

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

From Open Source LLMs, to new APIs, both startups and tech giants continue to push the envelope on what is possible to automate and improve using generative AI technologies. Open Source might be the future, but it faces big hurdles Tools like Chatbot Arena are useful in comparing the quality of results on various models.

Generative AI

Generative AI ChatGPT Open Source API

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