VC Cafe
MARCH 1, 2024
I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 5, 2012
That obsession with food had inspired Jon Yongfook Cockle to put together, as a weekend hacking experiment , a website that does a take on content aggregation around food reviews. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food. The second was Opinioneated.”
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Steve Blank
MARCH 15, 2011
By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? Their business was a robot lawn mower. Xu Cui (Ph.D,
Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2020
I realized we had the ability to rapidly launch a large number of companies on the path of validating their business models. In aggregate they interviewed 2,259 customers. But it just wasn’t the aggregate numbers that were impressive it was how much they learned in five days. Here’s how it happened. The results?
www.forentrepreneurs.com
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Follow up blog post Watch out for my follow up blog post on SaaS Metrics and Levers to see what happens when I drill down on the key metrics for a SaaS business. This is applicable to other subscription businesses such as Open Source.) Share: Posted in Building for Success , Sales & Marketing Machine , Startup Help.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
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. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation.
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