VC Cafe
MARCH 1, 2024
Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. For that purpose, she launched Embed , an accelerator program. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2014
Today the National Institutes of Health announced their I-Corps @ NIH program. Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) Lessons Learned.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 19, 2011
It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. We wrote programs that existed solely on a centralized computer (a mainframe), all of our data was stored centrally and all processing was centralized. Centralized computing was giving way to smart, distributed devices.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Cybersecurity refers to a set of techniques used to protect the integrity of networks, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access. According to Forbes , spending on cybersecurity in the U.S. could reach $66 billion by the end of 2018; globally, it is expected to reach $170 billion by 2020.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 21, 2010
They’ve released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play around with real production code, and modify the base examples for their own use. When I first started program, it was 1979. When I started programming on an IBM PC in 1983, I did exactly the same thing.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 31, 2019
But even once you’re producing and distributing episodes, you can’t expect to jump to the top of the iTunes charts. When it comes to software, you may want one program for recording and one for editing. And one specific program has become the industry standard, especially for newcomers. Get Ready To Record.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
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. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.). The Bend Experience.
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