Open Source, Software Developers and Venture Capital

Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. Luckily Harold Jarche pointed us to other discussion on open source models.

Open Source

Open Source Business Model Technical Cofounder Southern California

Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

Restful

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose

“To build a community, you need to focus much more on the user than on the buyer” - Snyk’s Guy Podjarny

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk was founded in 2015 with the mission to help developers make their code secure. 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.

Community

Community Cofounder Security Open Source

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

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.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS

Map of VC Investments

SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire

Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. Bad Notes on Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1u3NJvn. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. WordStream – crowdspring.co/1tOs1vg.

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Kevin Federline Search Engine

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Southern California Search Engineer

8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing

SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles Internet

30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Dragonera (2016) – AI based software development service. Billion in VC funding.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup

Entreprenuer Network

SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Networking Southern California Los Angeles

The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

For those that don’t know what Pivotal does, here is what they do in a nutshell: PCF accelerates and streamlines software development by reducing the complexity of building, deploying and operating modern applications. PCF integrates an expansive set of critical, modern software technologies to provide a turnkey cloud-native platform.

Cloud

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure

MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire

Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire

Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Microsoft became obsessed with COM, OLE and felt that it was the future of software development. Spolsky: The era of software was a narrow period of time.

Software Review

Software Review Software St. Louis API

You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper. You name it.”

Engineer

Engineer Database Open Source Acquisition

Twitter Link Roundup #119 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Could Your Business Survive Without You?

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 I regularly do wine tastings here in Los Angeles with some interesting folks I know. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire

The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Github is a web based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, a revision control system. That is the very month that Facebook became the largest social network, outpacing MySpace.

Web

Web Curation Open Source Demand

boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Some of our latest investments in NYC include founders building companies in serverless, open source data streaming, decentralized biometric security, splunk for customer data, and developer productivity for dynamic code testing.

Cloud

Cloud Cofounder Portfolio Advisory Board

Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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.

Fractional CTO

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE

Twitter Link Roundup #139 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years – [link]. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Good of Netflix to open source its cloud failure testing tool, Chaos Monkey – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

"What's Next in Tech" Event in Boston

Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. What has caused this improvement in capital efficiency? AWS is a great example. Bookmark the permalink.

Boston

Boston Oakland Bootstrapping Venture Capital

Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

Hiring

Hiring Software Review Coder Illinois

Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Answer: All self-taught.

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Developers Software Development

@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Another tip (whether outsourcing or developing in-house, make sure you follow the “2-man&# rule, which means that you should have at least 2 people familiar with your code which gives you insurance in case one goes away or moves on.

Software Review

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java

Java PHP Software Review Coder

How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. We never even considered that approach. VCs are slow tomake up their minds.

Startup

Startup Cofounder Software Stock

F2F Still Matters

SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire

StartUpRoar

Open Source Business Model

Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

Trending Sources

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

“To build a community, you need to focus much more on the user than on the buyer” - Snyk’s Guy Podjarny

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Map of VC Investments

Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

Kevin Federline Search Engine

8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing

30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

Entreprenuer Network

The Enterprise Strikes Back

MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point

Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

Twitter Link Roundup #119 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

Twitter Link Roundup #139 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

"What's Next in Tech" Event in Boston

Hazards of Hiring

Teach 'Em to Tinker

@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

How to Start a Startup

F2F Still Matters

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