Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. That culture has to come from the top down, by your actions and messages. Focus on customer needs rather than profits.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 285

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations. The support for “open source” software and Wikipedia have pioneered other business archetypes based on open innovation, collaborative decision making, and flat hierarchies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The result will be agency leadership creating new organizational structures that make innovation a continual process rather than an ad hoc series of heroic efforts. Accelerators, hubs, cafes, open-sourcing, crowd-souring, maker spaces, Chief Innovation Officers, etc. How to get leadership behind continuous innovation?

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Take pride in your leadership role in the local environment. They enjoy not being on the road most of time, and able to balance their activities and leadership roles between work and family, sports, or recreation. As the total owner of your own small business, you have maximum control of where and how to spend your time and money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. That culture has to come from the top down, by your actions and messages. Focus on customer needs rather than profits.

Artificial Inteligence 413

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 413

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Before Tasktop, I spent a decade building open source software development tools. The feeling of delivering value to and through a community of developers at the pace of an open source software project was exhilarating. For example, early on in my career, the most important thing to me was to become a great developer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations. The support for “open source” software and Wikipedia have pioneered other business archetypes based on open innovation, collaborative decision making, and flat hierarchies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2021

For example, if you are looking at an entrepreneurial position, show a background in leadership. The “open source” cross-check process seems to keep these fairly accurate, and the constraints on who is a “public person” go down every day. Fuzzy words will always hurt you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 1, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Google Web Fonts: hundreds free, open-source fonts optimized for Web – [link]. Google Web Fonts: hundreds free, open-source fonts optimized for Web – [link].

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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. The go-to-market strategy was to start free and open source and grow from there. Everything about it was built through that lens.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

We have decided to “open source” our language in the hopes that other VCs will use this clause and/or improve upon it so that as an industry we can proactively drive the change we want to see rather than just hoping it will happen. We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?—?one

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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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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The top 10 open source web fonts - [link]. The top 10 open source web fonts - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications | Datamation – crowdspring.co/1yevQN7. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 38 Free Open Source CSS Dropdown Navigation Menus | SpyreStudios - crowdspring.co/RHLTj6. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Under his leadership, Google has become a leading player in both these strategic areas. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Tesla also has its open-source patents, which means they're available for anybody to work with. 12- Apple & Steve Jobs.

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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. Glimpse the future and get inspired!

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Technical Review Austin North America Software Review 75

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2012

The most effective employees look for weaknesses within an organization both to correct those weaknesses and to show skill and leadership. Both of those examples showed true leadership and set a great example for the rest of the team. Today, we don’t hire engineers who have not worked on at least several open source projects.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! This analysis on Facebook open sourcing data center/hardware seems to miss the point – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Austin Startup

MAY 1, 2017

Join us as we celebrate the grand opening of the ground floor… you can’t miss it! On the horizon : O’Reilly Open Source Convention / OSCON (May 8–11), Austin IT Symposium (May 9), Knowbility Accessibility Leadership Symposium (May 15–16), Doree Shafrir at Book People (May 17), Austin A-List Ceremony (May 25), SXSW 2018 (March 9–18, 2018).

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Technical Review Austin Texas Web Development 48

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Logo Design: Flowers, Plants and Trees – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Logo Design: Flowers, Plants and Trees – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

With a defiant and petulant attitude, he insisted on Apple owning the hardware, software and services platforms, providing a seamless end-to-end solution despite this being contrary to the gargantuan open-source, transparent and platform neutral movement in the IT industry. These are worth nothing, and are summarized as follows: 1.

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Software Review Technical Review Open Source Leadership 145

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Here are a few success stories of business angels, investors and managers who dared to invest their time and cash ( source: [link]. Since then, his leadership of the Fund has allowed several African startups to access capital, mentorship and acceleration services. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! A brief history: 35 years of open source software – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! image credit: monkeyworks illustration.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations. The support for “open source” software and Wikipedia have pioneered other business archetypes based on open innovation, collaborative decision making, and flat hierarchies.

Merger 276

Merger Analytics Open Source America 276

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Government releases open source code – [link]. Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Leadership Rule No. The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Government releases open source code – [link]. Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing.

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Those Millions On Facebook?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

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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