Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This never existed a decade ago.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Today’s e-consumers are reaping the benefits of eCommerce’s cornerstone: Superior technological innovation. At the end of the day, the predictability of the business model, coupled with a fervent devotion to technological innovation, means that a company can invest in more marketing with confidence.

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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. Livescribe Notebooks by Moleskine marry analog and digital technology – crowdspring.co/1lYTFTX. Why Introverts Make Great Leaders – crowdspring.co/1yhmaS5.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Serverless technologies…. PCF integrates an expansive set of critical, modern software technologies to provide a turnkey cloud-native platform. Infrastructure market moves way too fast and more software needed to help manage this chaos. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. After all, most people don’t understand that “venture capital is a get rich slowly&# scheme.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. It was the first of the 54 Science and Technology Industrial Parks. China Venture Capital. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

You can tell me all you want about how many patents were filed at Columbia or wherever, or what they do in revenues—the future of the innovation in NYC is not in hard technology. Most problems these days are business and design problems—technology is rarely the gating factor on innovation these days.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Enterprise Tech in 2018: “The Law of Accelerating Returns” by Ray Kurzweil is truer than ever before: the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including but not limited to the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially. Some call this “ambient AI” and I just call it software.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. event I did last fall.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. Everything I’ve been talking about smart companies have already figured out.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As the tools are being democratised (from OpenAI’s invite-only approach to Stable Diffusion’s open source disruption), new APIs are making it possible for developers to create novel products using these technologies. These new technologies are new tools, like the pen, the typewriter, computers, and so on.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures. Amara’s Law : “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”. For the more advanced enterprises who have migrated to the cloud, this will be a year of net new technology and building applications. Enterprise Tech in 2019.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. What might these technologies do? Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. Of course there are exceptions?—?last Is anyone doing this?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. It was the first of the 54 Science and Technology Industrial Parks. China Venture Capital. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Altgate

JANUARY 21, 2010

Open source is the wrong term though; instead is probably better to say automate since LegalZoom and others are doing the same thing but commercially. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Management , Startups , Technology and tagged legal , open source , Privacy Policy , Terms of Service , website.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made. Individual Investors, NOT Venture Capitalists, are Leading the Charge. But the modern technology world is just not built for this model of investing. Technology Companies. technology companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. 5 Reasons The Windy City is a Great Place for Startups – [link]. Could Your Business Survive Without You?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It took me some time to figure out a title and I eventually settled for “Building European Champions” as the region has proven its ability to generate very successful venture outcomes and will continue to be the birthplace of many successful technology companies. Why Eastern Europe?

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. What has caused this improvement in capital efficiency? Some of the big ones are open source , cloud computing and virtual office infrastructure. In some cases costs today are 1/10 that of even 5 years ago.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Some have made the model work. and chartbeat. It’s great advice.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2014

something that many creatives feel about technology, that for all it has given us is has also robbed us of expressiveness and the ease of making. Tools like AWS, open source and web frameworks made the barriers to producing technology applications lower. Venture Capital & Technology'

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fintech has become a huge industry in the tech arena and thousands of companies each year are looking to create the next disruptive technology to break into the field. This is an open-source payment network that two parties can use for transferring money from one point to another. Ripple Labs.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As Flickr did for the social web and consumption models, Github uses an open, social design for all sorts collaborative models, like Docracy 's open source contact negotiation tools, GrabCAD for mechanical engineers, or K nowable for physical DIY projects.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2016

Despite a meager track record for generating outsized returns, investors keep piling money into open source start-ups. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a minimum of 110 “open source startups” had raised more than $7 billion from venture capitalists as of 2015, up over 100% since 2013.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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