mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. Who is this program for and why does it exist? 350 billion of this money is dedicated to small businesses under a loan program called the PPP (payroll protection plan). payroll protection. It depends.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. If there ever was any question about the value of China’s Torch Program walk around Zhongguancun. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. If there ever was any question about the value of China’s Torch Program walk around Zhongguancun. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On the horizon there are offerings like exclusive tech and bank partnerships for educating borrowers on the credit health of their business and reducing cost of capital for SMBs, additional funding products for addressing the entire credit-risk spectrum for small businesses, and an enhanced digital-user experience. Ripple Labs.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Startups Open Sourced. From choosing cofounders to raising capital to overcoming failure, there are lessons for startups every step of the way in this book. Based on lessons from the TechStars mentorship startup program, this book offers practical advice for getting your startup off the ground.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, —– Indie.vc

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Building collaboration tools is the next logical step after they've already built the only free open source depository of legal documents --similar to how Github isn't just a place to store your code, but to work on it with others. Remember the scene in The Matrix where Cipher explains reading the program code to Neo?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. Let me explain: 1. We took the $500k.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

And I asked him if Peter Thiel had it wrong with his 20 Under 20 program that pays students $100,00 to drop out of college… ReadWrite : You co-founded Splunk as the CEO more than a decade ago in the wake of the dotcom implosion. We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

The computer titans of today grew up building computers--coding up programs not in a classroom, but at home or in libraries. Their learning happened beyond the four walls--which is a concern of mine because, traditionally, schools seem to act like they''re the center and sole source of all worthwhile education on the planet.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. They called that program Eatsy. It’s great advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 27, 2015

A key distinction when it comes to BI tools and approaches is whether they are agnostic / open-source or closed / focused on a specific business process / industry application. less riddled with bugs), probably less expensive, and more naturally business intuitive than the current crop. The Best BI is P rescriptive AND P redictive.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. Twelve years later, I think there is some wisdom in hiring people who have made significant contributions to an open source community project. But the availability of code for review is one just minor reason why I like to see open source experience on a résumé.

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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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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Venture capital flows. A basic driver for a private technology market bubble is the over-supply of venture capital into the sector. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? They may then reveal the true source of the problem: the ads that they had started running on Facebook were delivering a far lower conversion rate to trials than in prior months. Great stuff!

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 30, 2012

When I entered the VC business 10 years ago, I tried to keep thinking about venture capital as a business, where the key focus area was on meeting the needs of our target customers -- entrepreneurs and limited partner investors. requiring less capital), smart investors adjust to meet those new needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Venture Capital.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. In the official program, publicize the names of donors based on their donation amount: High Donations : Executive Producers. How can you reveal your reputation?

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

MasterMind gathers and harnesses mass amounts of structured and unstructured information from a large number of diverse, complementary sources such as sensors, databases, open sources, paperwork, etc.It 5) PawsTrail (alpha version).

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Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← F the Banksta! So this coupled with a huge influx of public and private capital invested in “online medical records&# is going to create some very interesting opportunities. compared to release 1.3

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&#

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In my post on what has changed the venture capital industry more than any other factor I talked about Amazon.com’s role. On AWS and with open source you can achieve amazing results for $500k. But this coming generation is much more likely to be inspired by The Social Network and want to be entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. times the size of the global venture capital industry today. Example #2.

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

Open source – more pragmatism coming to the market, not just a religion but needs to deliver real value. While WPF is great for applications, the fact that WPF/e is cross platform really opened my eyes to this being a potential Flash killer.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Hackersshould do this even if they dont plan to start startups, because its the only real way to learn how to program. Thats nonsense.

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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. Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. However, I needed to actually build it! HTML5 Mobile App Hackathon. Palo Alto, CA.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. I enjoy working on my idea, but trying to learn everything oneself is a bit daunting…especially programming. I have had a programming job and tried to do side projects after work/ weekends.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

Would you stay on the venture capital side? Being point on a program like this would certainly be a great challenge and opportunity. I've been toying with the idea of open sourcing some kind of startup education program or making it a multi-school thing, but again, not sure how I can feed myself with that.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Nine months into my year tour, and seven months into my reading program, I was learning something interesting every day. (We Instead someone realized that the knowledge I had accumulated could provide the big picture to brief new guys “read in” to this compartmentalized program. We could do what!? From where??) It had no PR agency.

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