SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. I actually think this is a pretty innovative model.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

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. 2007 was the watershed year. Facebook went mainstream after the F8 conference and its big push beyond college campuses.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. “They’re probably a little ahead of their time,&# she said.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. This analysis on Facebook open sourcing data center/hardware seems to miss the point – [link]. An Interview With Twitter’s Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass – [link]. YouTube starting to roll out a live service – [link]. Who are we? And where do we come from?

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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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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

He helped create WordPress very early on through his many open source contributions and today this software powers the internet. I first met Alex around the time I started Techstars, in 2007. He was very, very good at it. Alex changed the world in so many ways. He created the share icon that you see on most web sites today.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Or even contribute to an open source project. This is a relatively slow method, however, depending on how quickly you can connect with someone. But such a connection can be long-lasting and meaningful. Learn to write code yourself. Then go to hacker events and developer meetups.

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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. Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Because they are open source. Google has optimized this open source to freemium model in almost all of its products. Acquia, Inc.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

open-source-software(14). Dec, 2007 (16). Nov, 2007 (15). Oct, 2007 (22). Sep, 2007 (11). Aug, 2007 (14). Jul, 2007 (11). Jun, 2007 (12). May, 2007 (22). Apr, 2007 (2). Mar, 2007 (4). Feb, 2007 (6). Jan, 2007 (6). activerecord(23). alt-net-israel(8).

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). If you tried outsourcing something a few years ago and it didn’t work, things likely have changed.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

← 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results More “Open Source&# Legal Tools → Comments are closed.  But today I got an interesting question the answer I wanted to share here. Bookmark the permalink.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm. Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

So I think this is a brilliant step toward " open source law " which I've been advocating for a while.  ← There is Too Much Venture Capital…Not Too Little 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens → [link] Are You In Need Of A Payday Loan Now?   Building that must have been crazy.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

Some of the big ones are open source , cloud computing and virtual office infrastructure. The virtual office tools today are so impressive that you can source talent globally and simultaneously improve productivity while cutting costs–unthinkable 10 years ago. What has caused this improvement in capital efficiency?

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. Open Source Lists. Google purchased DoubleClick for $3.1 DoubleClick. DoubleClick.

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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.

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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.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

social networking hype of 2006-2007. So-called “super angels” – wealthy, technology-savvy high net worth individual investors - and NOT traditional venture capitalists, are now the preferred funding source for the most dynamic entrepreneurs in the hottest technology sectors. Here’s why: 1.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but. Posted by: Darren Stuart | September 10, 2007 4:53 AM What an excellent article! Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 6:28 AM Excellent post! Cant wait for more ;).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Durand co-founded Digital ID World, the identity industry conference (acquired by IDG in 2007). While at Jabber, Durand incubated the Jabber Software Foundation, a non-profit established to facilitate growth of the Jabber Open Source project. Prior to Ping Identity, Durand founded Jabber, Inc., Prior to Jabber, Inc.,

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

What’s clear though is that the multiples for 2007 are trending down from those of 2006… If you’re an entrepreneur out fundraising, you need to keep these multiples in mind. I use figures like that as 3rd party data when discussing valuations.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The Techstars Boulder 2007 program was an experiment – we had no idea if it would work. He was dissatisfied with his experience and had a hypothesis around helping a group of companies get going, surrounding them with active mentors, and accelerating their early growth. The experiment involves anyone who wants to participate.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Paul Graham When I moved to the east coast in 2007 I made it a goal to see Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham speak at some point. Geoffrey also talked through the product adoption cycle, but this was less applicable to the products I deal with as a Micropreneur. I wound up seeing Joel, but I never caught Paul when I lived in New Haven or Boston.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Abhishek Bhattacharyya ( MSEE, Jun 2011) creator of WT-Ecommerce, an open source engine, Ex-NEC engineer. Jun 2007 Baylor) Stanford Researcher Neuroscience, postdoc, BS biology from Peking University. If you can’t see the slide above, click here. Personal Libraries Team Members. Xu Cui (Ph.D,

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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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

More than 1,600 VC investments in TMT have been made since 2007, with a record high of 436 in 2011. The number of deals in Technology, Media and Telecommunications more than doubled in 2011 over the previous five years and slowed back down dramatically in 2012. In the U.S.

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Altgate

APRIL 12, 2010

← More “Open Source&# Legal Tools 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco → Comments are closed. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Boston , HBS student business plan contest , startup. Bookmark the permalink.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

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. I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. That was the year Twitter took off.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

When I discovered WordPress back in 2007, the first thing that happened is I discovered the plug-in repository, which is this free repository at wordpress.org, which has now over 30,000 plug-ins that you can download and include in your website for free. They call them plug-ins.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 16, 2010

I remember back in 2007/2008 time frame when I visited Willow Garage for the first time. The CEO explained the company’s vision about changing the world with robots and an open-source robotics operating system ( ROS ). They didn’t have one working robot at the time, nada.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. We all know that. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

More than 1,600 VC investments in TMT have been made since 2007, with a record high of 436 in 2011. The number of deals in Technology, Media and Telecommunications more than doubled in 2011 over the previous five years and slowed back down dramatically in 2012. In the U.S.

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Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

The background on i2b2 is that a few years ago the NIH invested something like $20 million into developing an open sourced platform that solves a major problem faced by hospitals (and medical researchers) which is that existing hospital information systems (“HIS&# ) were not designed for search. compared to release 1.3

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