ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

As he told me, while Larry Page and Sergey Brin were building Google in Silicon Valley, Wise was a Marine combat medic in the Southeast Asia. FounderLY launches today as an open source platform for entrepreneurs to share their stories through short form interviews. Open Source Storytelling.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. If you can’t see the Helmsman 2-minute video click her. If you can’t see the video of the Helmsman team presenting click here.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Given the gold rush going on in Silicon Valley right now, it’s not surprising that some young entrepreneurs think it’s time to drop out and start a company. Opens doors all through life. One of Silicon Valley’s biggest problems is that too many waste time building stuff that doesn’t matter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The best and most consistent funds in Silicon Valley (e.g. But my conversations in the private corridors on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley is that many fund sizes will be smaller going forward. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town. This imbalance keeps L.A.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers. A rival company has launched a competing version based on its underlying open-source code.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 5, 2020

Almost six years ago Marc Andreessen spelled out the playbook for creating the next Silicon Valley: Don’t copy the Valley but “figure out what domain is (or could be) specific to a specific region—and then removing the regulatory hurdles for that particular domain”. Ideas, teams and capital are more fluid than ever before.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2. BigID and Dropout Labs address some of these areas, and we are actively looking for new opportunities. Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there. Terrorists today live on the ‘net and they are all early adopters.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. Silicon Valley is a state of mind. To recreate Silicon Valley in Europe, Europe must first adopt Silicon Valley’s culture.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

Angel investing has grown – wealth creation in the internet bubble massively increased the number of angel investors, particularly outside Silicon Valley. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10.

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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. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link]. Study: Media Multitasking May Lead To Depression, Anxiety – [link].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

At Stanford, Ann Miura-Ko and I have been working on a simplified Silicon Valley version of this model. A Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Business Plan Versus Business Model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. In any case, it’s time to look again at the options you really have.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times. Breathtaking Scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. In any case, it’s time to look again at the options you really have. Lean startup.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

If you’re a non-technical entrepreneur in Silicon Valley that’s out of college now, it can be tough to find a technical cofounder. Or even contribute to an open source project. Active software engineers probably get two offers a month or more. But it’s not hopeless. Learn to write code yourself.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Startups Open Sourced. Just like Startups Open Sourced , Founders at Work offers an inside look into how famous startups got off the ground. My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They did it all open-source, so from an ethos point of view it was opposite, and from an infrastructure point of view it was all cloud and modern like you would expect. Classic minimum viable product.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. In any case, it’s time to look again at the options you really have.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

He’s spent the last four years in Silicon Valley out of uniform continuing that work. We’d add a new category, Horizon 0, which kills ideas that are not viable or feasible (something that Silicon Valley is tremendously efficient at doing). Solution 5 : The reality is that the DoD/IC is not Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. And since I open source everything I do, you were the recipient of open source. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. No one cares about a new class, and no one’s going to ever read them.’

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Embrace open source. I’m absolutely amazed by the number of non-technical hiring managers and CEOs who are still wary of open source developers. Open source developers aren’t lazy thieves. The same should be true for open source developers. Here are some tips to get you started: 1.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right? We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset. Were you insane? We all had gum on our face. The bubble had burst. It was absolutely the worst time in the world to start a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. True was my top pick in Silicon Valley. My very first seed deal was a company that told me flat out that they didn’t want to raise more than $500k. We offered them more : $750k-1 million. They said that they didn’t want the extra money or dilution.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

Diego Basch

JULY 1, 2014

It was my first encounter with the “creative minds of Silicon Valley” in their natural environment. Nobody seemed excited about open-sourcing the code, the original people were leaving, the coder gurus projected strange attitudes to a lowly candidate. At first glance I was impressed with the place.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Ycombinator open source term sheet is a good start for Seed deals. Wilson Sonsini (one of most respected law firms in Silicon Valley) does a "term sheet generator" here: [link] /wsgr/display. You can find there here: [link] softhetable.c. TechStars did one, too: [link].org/2009/02. org/2009/02.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Wired called a new Silicon Valley Gold Rush. Click on ‘source’ below to download a clickable PDF. The Artificial Creativity Landscape ( source ). Congrats to Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Compvis, @runwayml @StabilityAI , everyone who participated and the whole open-source community.

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Generative AI API Open Source Artificial Inteligence 117

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. My wife worked at Google so while we had good income in Silicon Valley it’s hardly the life of luxury given the costs of housing. We all know that. I had two kids and a rental house.

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Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance 308

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Users can share UGC / UCC via social media platforms, forums, comments, reviews, and open-source sites like Wikipedia. John Doerr of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist’s calls it the “next wave of the web.” Social media-fuelled the rise of the UGC.

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