Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2014

Freeware and Open source. There are also many open source tools for various requirements that you can use. It can be as simple as relying on the expertise of the staff at a computer store when you bought your computer the first time.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. For example, you may have content management and community needs that closely align with Drupal.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Until last week, when the news that a relatively unknown Chinese company called Deepseek, released its R1 reasoning model which is equivalent to the performance of ChatGPT’s o1 model, but is fully open-source and available at a fraction of the cost (3-5% of OpenAI’s model). AIface increasing challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

The goal here is to grow the sources of new ideas and gather fresh thinking to create a new product or service. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

AI Commercial Open Source Software (AICOSS): YC wants to fund startups that offer support and services for open source AI tools, similar to how companies like RedHat and Github have done for other open source technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. In this age of the gig-economy, you can more quickly hire and manage freelancers, contract workers, and contract operations. Take advantage of low-cost modern tools and automation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

The goal here is to grow the sources of new ideas and gather fresh thinking to create a new product or service. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

The goal here is to grow the sources of new ideas and gather fresh thinking to create a new product or service. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The goal here is to grow the sources of new ideas and gather fresh thinking to create a new product or service. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2023

The post Open Source Scheduling Software: The Future Of Business Efficiency appeared first on Young Upstarts. Using scheduling software can boost operational efficiency and productivity, culminating in tangible business growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Keep your eyes and mind open to free sources of innovation in every ecosystem, including open-source software, university cooperative programs, and the many incubators and accelerators supported by volunteers and communities. Be sure to hire and cultivate new talent with the right mindset.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

Open Source Code. While it shouldn’t be the ultimate deciding factor for selecting a programming language, it’s worth keeping in mind that certain languages have vast repositories of open source code available online. According to a report done by Github, the three most popular open source languages among the website’s 5.8

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Will they accept an open-source state channel? They will demand an open-source code saying that this is the only way to achieve verifiability and trustless operations. Open source has many advantages, but its biggest strength is in the community development. But why isn’t this happening?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. With the latest advances in software technology, it’s no longer cost-prohibitive for business entrepreneurs, who can’t yet afford a human resources department, to take advantage of analytics tools.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). (Having these two federal research organizations working together is in itself a big deal.) We’re taking the class we taught at UCSF and creating an even better version for the NIH. (I’ll

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most of these tools are created as open-source software programs, which mean their codes are easily accessible to both developers and malicious hackers. You also need to make sure you choose a web host provider with care as well, with WPOwl being a good choice.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

billion in annualised revenue , an a myriad of new companies were born, from open source LLMs to application layer startups that were able to move fast and do much more with less. Open source LLMs have been improving at a rapid pace, have an active developer community and can be an attractive alternative, if managed properly.

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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. Spatial computing – with the launches of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 a new personal computing platform may evolve over the next decade.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Hipchat – Intra-company chat with history (+mobile).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. The series started here if you want to read from the start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Software crowd sourcing. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Sites like IdeaBounty get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Hugging Face launched its new app store , Spaces , offering 400K open source apps. It cloned an open-source version of OpenAI’s deep research in 24 hours from its debut. Mistral AI released Small 3, a local, open source model that could rival GPT4.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

Software crowd sourcing. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Sites like GeniusCrowd get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. With the latest advances in software technology, it’s no longer cost-prohibitive for business entrepreneurs, who can’t yet afford a human resources department, to take advantage of analytics tools.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2019

The traditional internet is built on open-source protocols , such as TCP/IP, HTTP, or SMTP. Blockchains are the open-source data layer protocols that will act as the basis for the new, decentralized web. Blockchain technology presents a new way to completely separate from the internet as we know it, and start over.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

Flutter: Flutter, an open-source UI software development kit developed by Google, empowers businesses to create visually stunning and high-performance applications that seamlessly operate on multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, and the web. Both frameworks offer numerous advantages, but their approaches and ecosystem differ.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Solutions in the open source world similar to what we accomplished are ‘PhoneGap’ or ‘Cordova.’ Use open-source libraries and pre-made code snippets. Open source projects are used by companies all over the globe to save time and money. Conclusion.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and published as an open-source code in January 2009. Bitcoin appeals more towards the tech-savvy crowd of people because it lacks “middlemen” or centralised authority. You can also take help from Quantum AI , from where you will get authentic information about bitcoin trading. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community. Open Source. Mumble – the first wide spread free and open source software for VoIP. Clubhouse attracts competition from every direction.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2025

Alibaba Group ‘s Qwen team has released QwQ-32B, an open-source AI model designed for advanced reasoning tasks. Microsoft has introduced Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant designed for healthcare professionals as well as AI agents for sales to take on Salesforce.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2021

Consider using premium paid or open source software whenever possible. Similarly, connecting to any public or private WiFi connection enables the network operator and or hackers to position themselves between you and the connection point, gaining access to your information or distributing malware.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

For example, you can use a public Go proxy , which is a centralized repository that hosts open-sourced Go modules. Next, you can integrate a reliable set of development tools to amplify your workforce’s capabilities. There are plenty of effective programming tools that support your developers.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Although established giants like Microsoft have proprietary software and systems, much of today’s internet is built on open source software. Brand stories will shine Open source software not only lowers the… This story continues at The Next Web.

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