VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Source: Graphtreon. They might flock to new, open source solution, to reduce platform fees and increase their share. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Monthly payouts on Patreon.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

Notable announcements were collaborations on apps with non-profit organizations, such as the World Wildlife Fund, as well as support of student apps and scholarships. Google Glass and Google’s integrative, open-sourced and out-of-the-box risks are ones that Apple, with its perfected boxes of silver-shiny goodness, should watch closely.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Embrace open source. I’m absolutely amazed by the number of non-technical hiring managers and CEOs who are still wary of open source developers. Open source developers aren’t lazy thieves. The same should be true for open source developers. Here are some tips to get you started: 1.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

When you’re working with a freelance or contract developer, make sure you have all your paperwork — from non-disclosure agreements to invoices and beyond — signed and sealed early in the process. TheyMakeApps.com is a good resource if you’re looking for a competent mobile dev agency.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Web technologies need to be accessible to non-technical people as well as technical people. happens when they realize that they dont have to think in columns and rows, and so they can manage non-tabular data just as easily. But that means that it will be necessarily unlike whatever was available in their technological experience.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. All of this work will help you in convincing a potential technical co-founder that you have what it takes to do the non-technical work necessary. are full of smart tech people).

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I just have a hard time evaluating competence of business co-founders. I'll need damn good evidence of your competence (e.g. If your idea is bad you have nothing to bring to the table because you have no other skills to offer as a non technical co-founder. Raising cash is an easy test. former successful start-up).

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies. We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset. Student teams compete to participate in our program.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can minimize risk by performing due diligence when selecting a company or individual to work with, clearly defining the project scope, expectations and milestones in any development contracts, and allocating enough money to hire competent developers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Problem 3: Risk equals failure and failure is to be avoided as it indicates a lack of competence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 5, 2015

Creating Visual Content: The Favorite Tools & Tips for Non-Artists crowdspring.co/1AJGeyq. The Traffic Prediction Accuracy of 12 Metrics from Compete, Alexa, SimilarWeb, & More – buff.ly/1KBkzIK. How Open-Source Software Will Speed Up Rebuilding Nepal’s Historic Sites crowdspring.co/1KSJWFW.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. — Why This Course? The syllabus for the class is below: Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Part I: History, Strategy and Challenges.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at the market size and the number of competing products. If you require a non-disclosure agreement for me to simply even hear your idea, I’m going to walk away unless you’re a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates type of figure. This should be non-negotiable for any business venture.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An aspiring entrant would need to build a network of railways to compete independently. Image source ). And why is it so difficult for others to compete? Followers are non-transferable capital that users store on the platform. And competing products pale in comparison.). They own the tracks. But demand won’t scale.

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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%. They compete on features, price and execution. But this is also spreading through non-game types of businesses. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

We have started a non profit organization under our umbrella that serves people with disabilities, cancer survivors and senior citizens on a fixed income and most recently, we have expanded that non profit organization to include some veteran services for veterans coming out of active duty service. Matt Scanlon: Most certainly.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Our value is built on the non-technical stuff, which relies on a network of people and resources that have taken years to develop. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Programmer Competency Matrix. Knows difference between clustered and non-clustered indexes. Good knowledge of editors, debuggers, IDEs, open source alternatives etc. Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than n. Computer Science.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

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. This is what the BSD license was invented for, for example. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Howie at Sky Pulse Media My biggest question is this any different than non-web logo design. Beautiful logos become fake or hollow because the company lacks depth. Thanks for the roundup! Raaz Shrestha what a grand article. Most of the logos are no different.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Howie at Sky Pulse Media My biggest question is this any different than non-web logo design. Beautiful logos become fake or hollow because the company lacks depth. Thanks for the roundup! Raaz Shrestha what a grand article. Most of the logos are no different.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. Meebo doesn’t even work right on Chrome or Opera. Living expense money 2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Palo Alto, CA.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Free often wins versus buying a competing product. As such, multi-channel analysis and attribution modelling is non-existent in the platform. Piwik is the open source alternative to Google Analytics. Cons: Measurement of acquisition channels appears to be a mute point with Clicktale.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Once we make this leap, certification can play a more active role in helping the higher education system clearly convey to students what skills and competencies they should pursue if their primary objective is to optimize their economic futures. And then we need to take that record and make it part of a fully networked certification platform.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Non-compete. I was once asked to sign a one year non-compete agreement as a sweat equity consultant. Without receiving a real salary, I’d be wary of signing a non-compete in an area which I have domain expertise in. Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The most basic approach is to tie identity to an address or public/private key pair on top of an open, well-secured blockchain like Bitcoin or Ethereum. an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. And manual migration is non-trivial for most users. Radicle , Gitcoin , Gitopia ). Lightning Network ).

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

IPgallery Inc - GroupView is IPgallery’s solution (powered by VideoThru – IPgallery’s Video Division) that enables concurrent group viewing of any content from any source anywhere, anytime, with anyone, on any device, regardless of the group member’s present social community login or service provider subscription or viewing location.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2016

The sensor project, for example, was funded by a grant from google.org and is all open-source. When it comes to fundraising, I have such an abundance mentality, and don’t look at other water orgs as competing with us. It’s made for the afri-dev well, and there are more than 1 million of them in Africa.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2016

The sensor project, for example, was funded by a grant from google.org and is all open-source. When it comes to fundraising, I have such an abundance mentality, and don’t look at other water orgs as competing with us. It’s made for the afri-dev well, and there are more than 1 million of them in Africa.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. Every publicly accessible Redmine instance which is not patched will be compromised. We cleaned up best we could without wiping but never got rid of the intruder, I kept finding evidence.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. It’s an *freaking open source*.net The list goes on and on. Get a grip.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives. All other code increasingly uses a ton of open source code. Some of these next big startups are in L.A.,

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research - new turtle mascot, open source code, cloud services from amazon, telescopes. One polling machine missing today.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Non-descriptive links: Having links like “Click here,” “website,” and “visit us here” are great ways to keep your profile looking natural. Open Source Lists. Vary the links you get with different keywords. Beef Up Your Content. Good content will never hurt you. Identity Lists. iPhone Resource Lists. Jobs Lists. Maps Lists.

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