Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

Open source and crowdsourcing principles are well understood: When you get enough talented people working on a problem, especially in an open way, progress comes quickly. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open. Then AI will really take off. (If

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2012

Most notably it’s much more open source focused. No problem as Microsoft has embraced open source with this update of Windows Azure. As you may know Microsoft has really made some awesome improvements to Windows Azure. Want to run Linux? No problem.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. I had to be there.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

Then open source the results. I don’t care if you pay the fired people for two years – give them healthy severances and incentives to go work in the private sector. Necessity will drive efficiency. Investment : Focus investment in university research.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2012

It’s based on CrunchBase data and the open source Represent-map project that was the basis for Represent.LA map of the LA startup ecosystem that Alex Benzer of SocialEngine created.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2015

Remember, Java was theoretically Open Source, but like so many things in our world when lawyers get involved “it’s complicated.” See Is Java free/open source or not? and Is java an open source programming language? .” Oracle also got copyrights to the Java APIs.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2018

Please view this policy as open source. With respect to all agreements between the Company and any employee or contractor, the Company will exclude reports of sexual harassment or assault from any non-disparagement clause. In addition, the Company will encourage portfolio companies and funds to adopt a similar practice.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2010

In March I wrote about Standing Cloud ’s public launch of a free service to test drive open source applications. There are now more than fifty open source applications available in Standing Cloud – so they’ve organized them in a searchable list format.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2012

Through the Storefront, you can fire up preconfigured instances of a wide range of open source apps – and you need no technical knowledge to do so. You can run on AWS, Rackspace, GoGrid, and several other cloud hosting providers.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2018

Project #MovingForward is building an open-source directory that pools diversity, inclusion, and anti-harassment commitments from VCs. At Foundry Group, we’ll do at least eight new meetings with women looking for funding who we’ve never met with before in the month of March.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

They’ve recently open sourced the syllabus and we’ve put up a page on AsktheVC for anyone teaching a course using Venture Deals. Since the publication of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist we’ve started hearing from professors who have used our book in their course.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 2, 2013

Building using Netflix’s Open Source Architecture (a 4 hour workshop). You can check out the most recent agenda here, but some of the sessions that are indicative of what Eric’s talking about include: Building a distributed data platform with Node.js, Storm, Kafka, and ZeroMQ. An Enterprise Mobile Reference Architecture.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2014

They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.” [Elon wrote in his post All Our Patent Are Belong To You ] “Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Companies like Chris Anderson’s 3D Robotics have built, along with the open source community, the ArduPilot, a sub-$500 autopilot for unmanned drones. That will happen when autopilots, not humans, have achieved the necessary level of sophistication.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Standing Cloud’s standard application catalog includes 100 open-source and commercial applications; its Platform-as-as-Service (PaaS) capabilities support multiple programming languages, including Rails, PHP, Java and Python, and a wide range of cloud service providers and orchestration software systems.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 4, 2012

Join us in keeping the Internet free and open. It’s open source so if you have comments or suggestions for improving it, please weigh in on Github , Cheezburger , reddit , or TechDirt. Here is the Declaration of Internet Freedom. If you support this, either sign up your company or sign up as an individual.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 17, 2010

There are a huge number of solution providers out in the world who are specialists in any of the more than 70 open-source apps that Standing Cloud supports. And if you want to see how easy it is to set up any of over 70 open source apps in under five minutes, just select an app and click on “Use It Now.&#.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2010

The Trial Edition makes it easy to test drive any of about thirty different open source applications on any of several cloud server providers. But for someone who is *not* an IT professional, it removes some rather high barriers to both open source applications and cloud computing. It’s just a lot faster and easier.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2016

It does appear that they need to work on their SEO so they don’t get confused with Free Open Source Church Worship Presentation Software. OpenLP is a new site moderated by the gang at Sapphire Ventures that seems to be a collection of all the LP stuff floating around the web.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Hack on open source projects. As I got to know a few of them better, I learned that they did things like lead their First Robotics team. Write software for local businesses. Help out on systems for their schools and local governments. I was absolutely and completely blown away. And inspired. They were from all over the place.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

While at Jabber, Durand incubated the Jabber Software Foundation, a non-profit established to facilitate growth of the Jabber Open Source project. Prior to Ping Identity, Durand founded Jabber, Inc., an instant messaging and presence management software provider (acquired by Cisco in 2009). Prior to Jabber, Inc.,

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

This makes me happy as part of our goal when we started TechStars was to “open-source” the mentor driven accelerator process. PBS Newshour has a neat eight minute segment on accelerators. TechStars is featured, along with several others. The punch line from the interview is in the first 30 seconds.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 27, 2011

As a step in the right direction, Jason and I decided to open source our Foundry Group form legal documents. You can find them on the Ask the VC Resources page. Included are our standard forms for the following: Series A Term Sheet. Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 12, 2011

If you want to see an actual convertible debt term sheet or the actual legal documents, take a look at the TechStars Open Sourced Model Seed Financing Documents. If you feel like we missed anything, or got anything wrong, or were confusing in our explanation, please chime in on the comments on the post.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2014

I’ve always loved his hacker spirit, amazing ability to do things no one else could envision, and willingness to open source a lot of his work to lead the way for others. I’ve long been a John Carmack fanboy since I first played Doom and realized id Software was based in Mesquite, TX, near where I grew up.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2010

Then, open source all of their thinking. MIT has long been a leader in using the web for education – most recently with MIT Open Courseware. Pay them each $25k for the rest of the summer – this is tiny compared to the amount of money being spent daily on the outside consultants working on solving the problem.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

And we plan to share out ideas widely, as a way of open-sourcing our learning, engaging with other people working on similar problems, while taking an author and reader-centric point of view, in the same way that Techstars took an entrepreneur and mentor-centric point of view. The experiment involves anyone who wants to participate.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2010

Then we’ll open source these and evangelize them across the startup world, at least in the US. I’ll include a handful of early stage investors (both VCs and angels) in this effort. My goal will be to finish the day with a truly standardized set of seed documents that all of the firms agree to use.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 14, 2012

We had never met before and I loved the conversation – his brain was bubbling with ideas that are relevant to many of the things I’m interested in, he challenged some of my thinking, and we had a deep and awesome conversation about open source hardware, makers, and MakerBot.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2010

While they like sites like Stack Overflow and Github’s wiki pages on different open source projects, Nate and Natty never found a great site on the web that has comprehensive documentation on how to program. As they were trying to get basic stuff to work, they spent time searching for and then reading the full posts and comments.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2015

At the end of the discussion, we decided to start the Global EIR Coalition to open source our approach and try to help every state in the US implement a similar program. Both Jeff and I have been working hard on making it much easier for immigrant entrepreneurs to get visa’s to start their companies in the US.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2010

The other huge thing that is related is that I read and still read copious amounts of open source code written by other people. Almost always I had forgotten to assign some variable or I was calling a method that did something different than I thought.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2012

OccamRobotics , founded by a serial entrepreneur who came to Boulder from the bay area, is working on low-cost, autonomous pallet trucks that build up on recent breakthroughs in robotic algorithms, availability of open-source tools , and novel sensors.

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