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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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How Actionable Insights Can Help You Optimize Your Website

Duct Tape Marketing

Nils is an open-source aficionado. After a brief passage through the academic world where he researched simulation of distributed systems, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and cofounded Woorank as the CTO. Nils is an open-source aficionado.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. Lessons Learned.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. Centralized computing was giving way to smart, distributed devices.

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Best Big Data Tools And How To Use Them

YoungUpstarts

The name is quite synonymous with the big data and is an open source application. Many of the companies have developed user-friendly alternatives and Cloudera is the most popular. This software will be permitting storing and retrieving a large amount of data which is stored in the distributed storage.

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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

Marcus Harris is a Software Litigator at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP and works with technology companies and software developers from startups to publicly traded companies regarding software development, licensing, ownership, and distribution.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. Build $10-30M funds.