www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land. SteveL Posted September 3, 2010 at 3:20 pm | Permalink Compare also the trends for JavaScript vs Java.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. As part of each of the classes we open source our educators guide here. Teaching “Search versus Execution”.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shopify Sustainability Fund (founded 2004) – with a market cap of $73 billion, publicly traded Shopify launched a $5 million annual fund to invest in environmental technology fighting climate change. The mega grants are a way for Epic Games to back developers and companies using their Unreal engine.

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Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

When the first DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition to build an autonomous car to complete a 150-mile route, was held in 2004, the concept seemed audacious and it was. Companies like Chris Anderson’s 3D Robotics have built, along with the open source community, the ArduPilot, a sub-$500 autopilot for unmanned drones.

Artificial Inteligence 183

Artificial Inteligence Government Nevada Cost 183

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Until 2004, when the U.S. Musk, by making his fast chargers available to others and open-sourcing Tesla’s patents , has intentionally filled a potential moat. Takeaway : Customer data should improve the user experience, not make it tougher for people to leave. If you left your provider, you lost your phone number.

Non-Compete 122

Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tips for helping you get you there include: Have a good website to serve as your business’s online hub (ideally, one with an Open-source CMS that’s feature-rich and offers the opportunity to take advantage of integrations, such as those for SEO and social media).

Social Media 103

Social Media Syndicate Syndication SEO 103

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. As part of each of the classes we open source our educators guide here. Teaching “Search versus Execution”.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea. At this point, you could use a free Open Source stack which would accelerate development. Then you’d raise a Series B to scale the marketing. The qualitative bar for the team, idea, and market was high. Then you’d build the product and spend $5M to market it.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Product Open Source Distribution 105

BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2004

Rather than go into the software (which I really like btw, combination RSS reader, bookmark manager, and simple collaboration tool), I wanted to share some of our thoughts about consumer-based web businesses circa 2004. The post Web-based businesses circa 2004 appeared first on BeyondVC.

Web 60

Web XML Guerilla RSS 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 25, 2011

Flowplayer – open source flash video player that allows you to customize the player for your embedded video and create a branded player – a step up from simple YouTube embeds for serious video experience.

Small Business 57

Small Business Marketing Widget Flash 57

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Open Source Lists. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

BeyondVC

MARCH 22, 2004

Given this tension between vendors and proprietary lock-in, it is no surprise that open-source and open-platform technology and new business models like the hosted or subscription sale are spreading rapidly. The post PC Forum 2004-Monday morning appeared first on BeyondVC.

Architecture 60

Architecture Early Stage Open Source Security 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisville 102

Louisville Term Sheet Kentucky Ukraine 102

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In 2004 it was ridiculous that Harvardundergrads were still using a Facebook printed on paper. The reason youreoverlooking them is the same reason youd have overlooked the ideaof building Facebook in 2004: organic startup ideas usually dontseem like startup ideas at first. There are always great ideas sittingright under our noses.

Startup 98

Startup Direct Marketing Open Source Software 98

Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did. For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. By 2010, that percentage had declined to a mere 3%. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. companies went public.

IPO 78

IPO Private Equity Initial Public Offering Balance Sheet 78

BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2006

It seems that the open source business model has been top of mind for many in the technology industry as of late. As I mention in an earlier post in 2004 , Red Hat has needed to find more avenues for growth and what better way to do that than moving up the stack from the OS. Sounds like Microsoft?

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Open Source Architecture Retention Revenue 60

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset. Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six.

Founder 60

Founder Entrepreneur North America Startup 60

www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. 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. About Eric.

Hiring 40

Hiring Software Review Coder Illinois 40

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). When people think of reciprocity, they usually think of direct reciprocity. Crowdfunding communities are no different.

Campaign 48

Campaign Reputation Metrics Naming 48

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 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." LAMP, open source, Intel, clusters, JBOD. Open, APIs and data sharing. " Web 1999/2000. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy. If you build it, they will come.

Web 60

Web API Open Source Business Model 60

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. Break up or Nationalise Big Technology Companies: All countries should develop their own search engines and social media that are open source software stacks which their society can run and iterate collaboratively on. But when the web 2.0

Government 79

Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

BeyondVC

APRIL 26, 2004

Mr. Robertson has advanced us funds under the line of credit since July 2002, including advances of $5,600,000 during 2004. Robertson, our founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, as payment in full of all remaining outstanding amounts under a revolving line of credit.

IPO 60

IPO .Net Revenue Operations 60

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 23, 2003

In an earlier post , I talk about 2004 as a year where Linux begins to make inroads on the desktop. Here is a recent article from Infoworld suggesting the same. In the article Nat Friedman, cofounder of Ximian which was recently sold to Novell, makes some interesting points.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Employee Cost 60

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 17, 2003

However, I feel that in 2004 we will see some large corporations go with Linux on the desktop. There are a number of companies going after this market including: Suse , Lindows , redhat , and Xandros. As time passes, Linux is increasingly becoming a viable alterntive to Windows.

Security 74

Security Internet Software Cost 74

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20