Marketing Open Source Product Development Silicon Valley 
bizthoughts.mikelee.org
MARCH 8, 2012
If you’re a non-technical entrepreneur in Silicon Valley that’s out of college now, it can be tough to find a technical cofounder. Be a great product manager, marketer, or whatever your role is, and foster deep connections there. The dot-com bubble had just popped and amazing talent was all over the market.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 10, 2012
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. This book explains how success can come from finding your “blue ocean”: a market space that’s previously been untapped, and is ready to take on growth. Startups Open Sourced. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days.
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Customer development.
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. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy. In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 11, 2009
Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Yes, you may be more familiar with the term open source, but lets give credit where credit is due , at least for today). This is especially true in Silicon Valley. This approach gives you an edge in hiring.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. Not everybody can, especially if they need to run with the idea to get to market. and great point on seeking vc backing, i don’t think there’s a point to trying unless you graduated Stanford or have a working product to pitch.
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