VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

In this post, I’ll delve into some of the most notable tech wars, both past and present, and explore the battles yet to come, including several new additions to the list. New contenders including HuggingFace open source model, Anthropic, AI21 Labs Jurassic, Meta’s LLaMa and others continue to keep this space red hot.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2019

Blockchain technology presents a new way to completely separate from the internet as we know it, and start over. The traditional internet is built on open-source protocols , such as TCP/IP, HTTP, or SMTP. Blockchains are the open-source data layer protocols that will act as the basis for the new, decentralized web.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chula , is an AI assistant that creates graphics for presentations or Tome , which uses generative AI to generate presentation slides. Congrats to Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Compvis, @runwayml @StabilityAI , everyone who participated and the whole open-source community. Such a milestone!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Is there anywhere I can download the presentation?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

Some focus on the core model level, developing large language models or diffusion technology for image and video creation, and others operate in the application layer, powering their generative AI experiences by combining one or a number of APIs that are either open source or commercially available.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2014

Portability often comes at a premium, and unless all your employees are on the road giving presentations, not every worker in the organisation needs a laptop or tablet. Freeware and Open source. There are also many open source tools for various requirements that you can use.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

Choose from a broad range of 3D modeling software available, including a free open source software or an industrial-grade software (need to pay the license). A 3D printing software can be used to directly link your design to a 3D printer with additive manufacturing or 3D printing rapid prototyping.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Hacking For Policy – Final Presentations : At the end of the quarter, each student teams’ policy recommendations were summarized in a 10-minute presentation. Their policy presentations are below. Team 1: Precision Match (AI for DoD Operations) Click here to see the presentation. Awesome class!

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Source: Flickr. Node JS is an open source, cross-stage JavaScript run-time application which is utilized for the improvement of both Server side and customer side applications. open source and complimentary, it also offers extraordinary flexibility and readiness which allows repetition of codes. Not only is Node.js

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2020

No doubt it’s a richer presentation with audio and voiceover so I hope that SaaStr is recording and releasing presentations. Feel free to open source and use any information you find useful. But for now you can have view the deck I plan to use below (or click to go to SlideShare if you’d like to download it).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

However, this challenge also presents an opportunity for those who can strategically differentiate themselves and capture the attention of their target audience. The need to stand out is bigger than ever With the breakneck speed of advancements and an influx of new players, it’s easy for startups to get drowned out in the noise.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Technical Review ChatGPT 78

Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

We normally ask our students to contribute to open source to engage with communities and companies with distributed teams and workflows. Open Source. Getting started with open source is really easy! I know how hard it can be. We also ask them to engage with those companies and their employees on Twitter.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Embracing remote work policies not only slashes expenses related to physical office spaces, utilities, and supplies but also opens the doors to a global talent pool, potentially enhancing the diversity and skill set of your team, a considerable boon for startup success in today’s competitive environment.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 2, 2019

And last but not least, we announced our investment in Celo , an open-sourced crypto-powered global payment platform. Blockstack released their Blockstack whitepaper 2.0 , which builds on two years of R&D work, peer-reviewed research, and presents a more detailed specification of their technology. .

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2017

Contributing to these trends are less expensive and more powerful hardware, and open source end-to-end connected data platforms that maximize the value of data-in-motion and securely store, manage and perform complex processing of data-at-rest. A classic example of machine learning is detecting fraudulent login attempts.

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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. Occurrences.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

The massive breadth and test coverage represented by this project has created an inordinate load on the servers Travis provides for free use by the open source community. For a bit of novelty, we are presently testing our benchmarks on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B environment. Change visualization.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Hipchat – Intra-company chat with history (+mobile). Administration.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

This presents a big change for Microsoft , who in a different era would’ve have looked so favorably toward open source — they will sunset internal repository Codeplex in an effort to bring Microsoft tooling to a new cadre of developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. We tend to view present and future solutions in today’s context, rather than the context of the last change.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. By then the open-source movement had really developed.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

It brings with it, the ability to interact with different stakeholders while also presenting personalized content. Vidhatanand Sharma is an Open Source evangelist and has keen interests in personalized experience on the web. Drupal as an Enterprise portal does more than just serving content. Bottom Line.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Microsoft went a step ahead and integrated Dall-e in the Office Suite, enabling people to easily integrate AI generated images in their presentations. According to Gartner’s “AI hype cycle”, generative AI is at the peak of inflated expectations ( source ). The US and European Generative AI landscape ( source ).

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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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

After trial and error, we found that having eight teams presenting in a three-hour block was the maximum without exhausting the instructors and the students. Over time we started experimenting with breaking up the three-hour block with breakout rooms and other activities so not all students needed to sit through all the presentations.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Challenge your team and yourself to present these user reviews in a unique, and helpful way that won’t raise eyebrows or have your visitors scratching their heads as they read John Jones’ over enthusiastic praise of your product. While completely steering clear of this is not recommended.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 1, 2011

Google Web Fonts: hundreds free, open-source fonts optimized for Web – [link]. Presentation: Creating Movie Posters in Photoshop – [link]. Google Web Fonts: hundreds free, open-source fonts optimized for Web – [link]. Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 12, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. He also built a number of key open source libraries used by many large Internet companies around the world (see ).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2020

Take a look at a selection of the presentations below from Stanford’s cohorts. All 50 Stanford presentations are here: Session 1 , Session 2 and Session 3. With the open source curriculum available here , it’s possible for any school or region to get a version of this class ready in 8-10 weeks. With more to come.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Open metaverse: these are the decentralized platforms built on crypto, such as Manticore Games, Sandbox or Decentraland and many others. Skechers is the latest brand to announce a virtual store opening in Decentraland ( Source ). presents more than just another sales channel for retailers.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me, this problem presents an amazing opportunity for widespread adoption of blockchain technology as a solution for all involved individuals and firms. Any business or platform that integrate open-source blockchain APIs for any account verification, access or transaction will provide an innovative level of data security as diagrammed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Use Open Source and Cloud Computing. Every startup will use some kind of software: book keeping, word processing, presentation. Sourceforge.net has an index of open source options. For most things you need to do, you can find an open source and/or cloud version of it. Environmental Protection Agency.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

They’ve recognized that there is no better predictor of future success, then present success. With the explosion of web and mobile apps, many seed and early stage investors today take a “wait-and-see” approach before deploying capital.

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