Open-Source Upstarts Catch The Eye Of Venture Capitalists
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Open-Source Upstarts Catch The Eye Of
Venture Capitalists (TechWeb)
Open-Source Upstarts Catch The Eye Of
Venture Capitalists (TechWeb)
04/02/2005 05:22 AMTechWeb - VC investment is flowing to companies that help businesses
use open source effectively, rather than tie them to one open-source
project.
Internet Explorer loses market share to
open source upstarts
Internet Explorer loses market share to
open source upstarts
07/12/2004 07:38 AMPC Pro Jul 12 2004 11:49AM GMT
Can Open Source Catch Microsoft By The
Horn?
Can Open Source Catch Microsoft By The
Horn?
04/29/2004 09:17 AMHow exactly do you stop a much awaited, overly hyped software release
from the billion dollar Redmond giant Microsoft? The Open Source front
has no definite strategy on how to catch the raging bull by its
‘Longhorn’, but is closely following the “If you cant beat
‘em, join ‘em” mantra. Microsoft’s Longhorn release is slated
for 2006, and the Linux desktop segment is in the firing line to be
gored in its tracks. With a gradually developing market, the
acceptance of Linux at the desktop level is still relatively low, and
the last thing that Linux vendors need is a new OS from Microsoft.
The Return of the Venture Capitalists
The Return of the Venture Capitalists
09/01/2004 10:32 PMFour years after the Internet bubble burst, the venture-capital
industry is showing signs of growth.
IBM invests effort in venture
capitalists
IBM invests effort in venture
capitalists
06/03/2004 06:55 PMVenture capitalists study Google IPO to
get new ideas
Venture capitalists study Google IPO to
get new ideas
08/29/2004 05:47 PMBusiness Day Newspaper Aug 29 2004 10:08PM GMT
Venture capitalists make profit in 2003
Venture capitalists make profit in 2003
04/21/2004 07:40 PMA Quirky Brilliance vs. the Dreams of
Venture Capitalists
A Quirky Brilliance vs. the Dreams of
Venture Capitalists
04/25/2004 08:46 PMNot every company would coyly spurn billions of dollars and front-page
attention. Yet Google seems intent on staying private as long as
possible. Why?
venture capitalists are getting antsy to
invest in bl0gs
venture capitalists are getting antsy to
invest in bl0gs
11/17/2003 06:58 AMGigaOm: Essays: For VCs, Blogging is the Next New Thing .. VCs
snifffing around the blogosphere? .. Everybody, rush in! .. Om Malik
reports: .. ryktas ..
Thing
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Are Venture Capitalists Bad For
Innovation? Or Just Bad At Proving Their
Point?
Are Venture Capitalists Bad For
Innovation? Or Just Bad At Proving Their
Point?
04/01/2005 01:46 PMAt the beginning of this article, I was hoping that maybe it was just
an April Fool's joke -- but it appears they're serious. A couple of
VCs who are obviously trying to get a lot of attention by saying
something controversial have written up an article saying that
venture capitalists are bad for innovation. However,
about the only thing this article proves is that these particular VCs
are bad at proving their claim. While the importance of venture
capitalists are often overblown, and there are many VCs who do stupid
things or who fit the stereotype of the lemming investor, VCs do serve
a very real and very important purpose for those who need that type of
capital investment. The biggest problem, often, is that entrepreneurs
misunderstand the purpose of venture money or how the VC world works.
Most of the article here is really just a rehash of how the VC world
works, which has been written up a thousand times already, and most
folks with any startup/VC/etc. experience already know quite well.
The problem, though, is with the hypothesis and then how they go about
proving it. First, they set up the issue by assuming that VCs are an
engine for innovation -- which is not exactly true. VCs are an engine
for building high growth businesses. Those two things are not
necessarily the same thing, though, obviously, there can be quite a
bit of overlap. However, it's silly to complain that VCs don't look
to fund longterm innovation instead of looking to fund business
opportunities. That's sort of the definition of venture capital.
Then the article gets worse and worse. Not only do they start with
the wrong assumption about the relationship between VCs and
innovation, they then go on to
define innovation in a way that
specifically proves their point. They start randomly cutting out
companies that they don't feel are innovative -- even when they are,
actually incredibly innovative. The problem is that these VCs appear
to be
confu
sing innovation with invention. Invention is coming up with a new
idea -- but very often that new idea is not commercially viable. It's
the innovation on the invention that makes an idea commercially
viable, and it's that commercially viable idea that interests a VC.
So, in that regards, it seems like VCs do often fund innovation.
They're not funding new ideas, but how to make new ideas commercially
viable. That's the sort of innovation we should be encouraging
anyway. And, of course, the final problem with the article is that
they're looking at the issue in aggregate. There's no denying that
there are some very bad VCs and some very bad VC investments out there
-- and they may "cancel out" the good ones. It seems odd to condemn
the whole space based on this sort of logic.
Water-less live fish technology wins
business award from Silicon valley
venture capitalists
Water-less live fish technology wins
business award from Silicon valley
venture capitalists
04/16/2005 10:09 AMSeafood.com Apr 16 2005 2:11PM GMT
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."
02/17/2004 11:57 PMAs per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself)
Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found
my post:
http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C
And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words:
___snip____
--
From: Katrin Verclas
Email: steering (a) nosi.net
Hi, Kevin -
NOSI actually just released a new...
Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group
Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group
05/07/2004 04:33 PMA key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed
to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the
legal standing of open-source software.
$25,000 Entrepreneur Contest: All
Graduate Students may Register to
compete for $25,000 and the chance to
present their new business proposals
before Silicon Valley Venture
Capitalists at the University of San
Francisco 2004 International Business
Plan Competition.
(http://www.businessplancompetition.org)
$25,000 Entrepreneur Contest: All
Graduate Students may Register to
compete for $25,000 and the chance to
present their new business proposals
before Silicon Valley Venture
Capitalists at the University of San
Francisco 2004 International Business
Plan Competition.
(http://www.businessplancompetition.org)
05/31/2004 02:13 PMThe University of San Francisco Entrepreneurship Program is now
accepting business plan proposals from all graduate students from
every nation for the USF 2004 International Business Plan Competition.
Graduate Student Entrepreneurs will compete for the opportunity to
present their best business ideas before leading Silicon Valley
Venture Capitalists and Chief Executives. Total Cash Prizes are
$25,000. Submission details are at
http://www.businessplancompetition.org. [PRWEB Dec 10, 2003]
Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine
Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine
03/08/2004 11:20 PMhttp://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html
ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their
arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on
their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their
sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.
Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life
Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life
06/23/2004 08:27 PM As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders
whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's
slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about
the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! —
here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that
Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So
there.)...
MS Opens Source to Catch Pedophiles
MS Opens Source to Catch Pedophiles
04/08/2005 12:11 PMAn open source system that helps find connections between cases of
child exploitation, known as the Child Exploitation Tracking System,
was officially launched Thursday. Jointly developed by Microsoft
Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Toronto Police
Service, the system has already helped to catch criminals.
Open source process for open source
development
Open source process for open source
development
04/05/2005 11:50 AM
Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true
open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board
of directors:
Casper Dik,
Roy Fielding,
Al Hopper,
Simon Phipps, and
Rich Teer.
(via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)
Open source opportunity, open source
risk
Open source opportunity, open source
risk
09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've
been working my way through the
ITConversations audio
archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's
interview
with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the
ArsDigita flameout,
Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the
risk, of open source as a business model.
...Huawei-3Com Open Joint Venture
Huawei-3Com Open Joint Venture
11/18/2003 07:03 AMSiliconValley.Internet.com Nov 18 2003 6:30AM ET
From open source to open services to
open information
From open source to open services to
open information
03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My
March
21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition
because, on the same day, a new events database called
EVDB was announced and shown at PC
Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so
for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among
others:
Dan
Farber,
Ross
Mayfield,
Om Malik,
David
Weinberger, and
Paul
Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes).
The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style,
Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds
promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public.
...Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)
Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)
04/08/2005 04:56 AMTechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now
offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.
Microsoft releases source code to open
source community
Microsoft releases source code to open
source community
05/05/2004 04:06 AMAbout a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to
SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point
for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the
terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification,
addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and
privileges that we associate with open source software.
Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source
Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source
02/13/2004 02:37 PMWhat should Microsoft do, now that a chunk of its NT 4.0 and Windows
2000 source code have leaked onto the Web? Our guest columnist says
Microsoft should make lemonade out of lemons and just open source the
whole enchilada.
Open source process for closed source
development
Open source process for closed source
development
04/05/2005 11:50 AM IBM Adopts
Open Development Internally: "Following on the success of its
Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a
form of open-source development internally to create technology the
company will sell commercially.
IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a
collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing
and testing new technology.
Danny Sabbah, vice president of strategy and technology for the IBM
Software Group, in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM is using its Community
Source model across 100 projects and 2,000 developers in the company.
These projects span the IBM Software Group, Systems Group, Research
and Global Services, he said."
Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about that. What parts of the
so called open source development process have they built into the
Community Source model? I've found that most developers have different
definitions of the open source development process (via
Ross
Gardler).
Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.
Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.
10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal,
and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the
issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the
speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the
issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the
benefits of Open Source.
Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.
Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.
02/18/2004 10:41 PMPi
ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business
Model. Interesting.
Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware
Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware
12/19/2003 11:45 AMMSFT's apparent incapacity for patching MSIE vulnerabilities hasn't
deterred open-source hackers, who have released a free software patch
for a well-known Explorer vulnerability.
Update: Andrew sez, "...it contains buffer overflow exploits that are wide open for hax0r5 to take
advantage of. In addition, it redirects weird URL requests to -it's
own website-."
Update: Yoz points out
that the patch has been patched.
Link
(via /.)
Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks
Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks
04/12/2005 08:07 PMAccessible through common Web browsers, the collaboration platform
lets users share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and
documents originating from both proprietary and open-source systems.
When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter
When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter
07/20/2004 11:14 AMOne frustration too many: time for a rant. When a bug in Mozilla
(keyboard focus is on the previously selected window) has remained
unfixed for at least 18 to 24 months, when XFree86 mouse interaction
with PS/2 or GPM remains hazardous and makes a system unusable and
that bug has been fobbed off to the kernel developers and not dealt
with for at least two years - when there are more examples like this
that make using Open Source software a pain, what do you do?
Are you one of the few people with the time and money and
expertise sufficient to delve into the source yourself to fix the
problem?
Do we have it "too good" and these niggles are, by comparison to
the rest of the world's computer users (Windows), absolute peanuts?
Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)
Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)
08/03/2004 10:28 AMwashingtonpost.com - Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to
convince the general public that the Linux operating system is
becoming more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld
conference underway this week in San Francisco, there is finally a
sure-fire sign that this may be the case: Microsoft won't be there.
More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention
More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention
08/09/2004 12:52 AMWi-Fi Technology Forum Aug 9 2004 5:11AM GMT
Open source cracks publishing wide open
Open source cracks publishing wide open
06/17/2004 11:24 AMOnce upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations.
Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank
from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat.
Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting
a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open
source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle,
are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.
Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source
Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source
06/16/2004 11:32 AM The White Rabbit has beckoned us down the wrong rabbit hole. Much has
been made about the open source revolution, and with good reason. The
open source development model produces superior software. But, in my
estimation, the real promise of open source lies not in open source,
but rather in open distribution. Here's why ...
Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source
Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source
02/13/2004 02:37 PMANALYSIS: Redmond would be smart to make lemonade out of lemons by
releasing the rest of the Windows code and letting developers have at
it.
IM upstarts vie for interoperability
IM upstarts vie for interoperability
09/24/2004 05:58 PMAlthough Microsoft and IBM offer IM products for the enterprise,
smaller challengers are staking out valuable territory with a
commitment to interoperability. This week both Antepo and Jabber will
unveil new IM offerings that bolster standards support and security.
Open Arms for Open-Source News
Open Arms for Open-Source News
07/22/2004 06:17 AMA California newspaper is turning over the news to the people: If you
think it's news, it probably is to somebody, so write it up. By Daniel
Terdiman.
Open-Xchange Server goes open source
Open-Xchange Server goes open source
08/04/2004 09:46 AMLINUXWORLD -- Open-Xchange Server, the Microsoft Exchange Server
workalike, is being released under the GPL at the end of August.
Open-Xchange Server is the engine behind Novell/SUSE's Openexchange
Server, and is produced by Netline Internet Service. Netline CEO Frank
Hoberg will be in the Novell booth during most of the LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo, displaying what a company press release
describes as "the industry's top-selling Linux-based groupware,
collaboration, and messaging application."
Browser upstarts eat into Microsoft
Browser upstarts eat into Microsoft
03/27/2005 08:09 AMSunday Times Mar 27 2005 11:37AM GMT
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