Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. The Exit Problem.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

While the majority of generative AI funding was concentrated in a few companies, we’re seeing a rapid rise of open source models, which remove the barriers for new startups which lack deep pockets, vast data and expensive engineers. It’s reasonable to expect that M&A of generative AI startups will follow.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software. The combination of the Internet and open source transformed the functionality in modern programming tools, increasing developer productivity 10 fold. Much better. Where do we go from here?

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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. is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology. Media and e-commerce sites are prime customers of this.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Companies should take social media seriously …it’s definitely here to stay! Latest Social Media News. Latest Media News. Facebook IPO Hitting in Late May [REPORT]. 33 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed. Open Source Lists. Social Media Lists. Flag this comment.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. They didnt talkWall Streets language when they did their IPO, and Wall Streetdidnt buy. No matter what kind of startup you start, it will probably be a stretch for you, the founders, to understand what users want.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So a lot of incumbent business software companies did what a lot of big companies actually did and other industries, media companies after the dot-com crash, which is they said, “Oh, thank God we don’t have to worry about this Internet thing. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s unclear how the fund has been affected in the recent restructuring following WeWork’s failed IPO and series of divestments of non-core assets. The trend is in full swing since the IPOs of Slack, Uber , Lyft , Postmates and others. Okta Ventures (founded 2009) – Okta has a market cap of $16 billion.

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gigaom.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

ROOT is entirely Open Source (LGPL). Flurry rides the mobile boom, raises $25M with an eye toward IPO. Might be interesting to also look at ROOT ( [link] ) which is the “Big Data” framework developed at CERN and was used to find the Higgs signal in PetaBytes of experimental data. See: [link]. Darren Oddie.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Media Temple. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). Social Media Tracking/Marketing. Domains.Co.

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