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Startup, Know Thyself: Q&A With Sierra Ventures Managing Director Tim Guleri
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| ECT: If I were an open source vendor, would
| I have a leg up in getting considered for a
| VC money award?
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| Guleri You would have a major step up over
| others if you were an open source company.
| Open source used to be a bit of a
| misunderstood business model. Now it is
| something that has picked up good momentum
| and is something that VCs love to see.
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| ECT: Are you seeing more requests from open
| source startups, or is that still a sparse
| field?
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| Guleri: It's still a sparse field, and
| that's a good thing because every
| discipline, be it software or hardware or
| data center, has an open source project
| that knocks them to death. So consequently,
| what happens is that the customers are not
| getting a value from a closed source like a
| McAfee or Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). They
| would rather look for an open source
| company. And when that open source company
| gets to scale, then that open source
| company will come looking for money. So
| that field hasn't become over-crowded.
| There are only a handful of companies that
| have reached commercial status following
| open source
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Startup-Know-Thyself-QA-With-Sierra-Ventures-Managing-Director-Tim-Guleri-69224.html
How open source tears down proprietary advantage
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| Slowly.
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| Open source doesnât overwhelm a proprietary system. It whittles away
| at its lead, slowly and sometimes unsteadily. Itâs the old Aesop story
| of the tortoise and the hare, and open source is the tortoise.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5736
We need a new kind of economy
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| For example, no traditional economist or policymaker could
| have predicted or planned for the open source revolution.
| "Ordinary people" make these things happen and they must be
| encouraged to do so in ever greater numbers and ways.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/31/economy-creativity-free-market
Why open source is health reform
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| Thatâs why open source is health reform. Unlock a high enough
| flood of data and mere arguments will be blown away. Show people
| their own data, explain what it means, and people will demand
| the services needed in order to live and not just get well.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=3273
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