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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. Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover.

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Taylor’s Typewriter Boom, How Nvidia Handles Failures, and Matt Mullenweg’s Open Source Philanthropy [link blog]

Hunter Walker

Nvidia also distributed to the press a satirical video, starring the product managers, in which the card was repurposed as a leaf blower.) Both of these programs are aimed at open source software community contributors. Freedom Grants helps them relocate from areas of the world that are incompatible with OSS community values.

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The Rapid Evolution of Generative AI Video footage

VC Cafe

But the next frontier is video. Progress in generative AI technologies for video has also be moving very fast, but it’s generally less talked about than text and images, which already have products with wide consumer adoption. moving pictures) from prompt This post focuses on video footage generation.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

I assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. Free: Startup Tools.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? Absolutely. Firefox rocks.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

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. Instagram announced last week that it will allow livestreams without the need to turn on video, essentially enabling live audio rooms. Open Source.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

If you can’t see the four videos of General Mattis click here for the entire talk. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. If you can’t see the Omniscient 2-minute video click here.

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