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OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 4)
SM: In your eyes what makes OpenSource work so well? BB: That is a question I first started to answer almost ten years ago. Back in 1999 I brainstormed quite a bit with Tim O’Reilly about what really made OpenSource work. At the time there were obviously companies like Red Hat emerging as support organizations,
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 3)
SM: Was Apache a non-profit from 1995 to 1998? BB: Apache certainly grew and grew fast. In 1998, in part because of the interest and involvement from major players like IBM, Sun, and Oracle, we realized that we needed to form and actual entity. Otherwise someone could have found a patent issue and come and
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 2)
SM: How did you get involved with Apache? Was it through Organic? BB: Organic was my day job and I stayed there until 1998. Apache was a side effort that ran in parallel to Organic. Web technologies were brand new at the time and companies were just starting to emerge with commercial web software. Most
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 1)
When I think OpenSource, I think about a certain well-known figure from my grad student days at MIT, who never showered, slept in his office, and believed that software should be free. Today, I bring you a different sort of OpenSource pioneer: one with a business sense! Brian Behlendorf, as you will get to know
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 6)
SM: How do you view the current market landscape today and going forward into the future? EF: There are 3.2 million teachers teaching and many are headed out the door. Some are retiring, but almost all are fed up with increased demands and little support. 2.8 million teachers need to be recruited over the next
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 5)
SM: What stage are you at now in terms of revenue, profitability and users? What metrics do you use for evaluation – traffic, unique visitors, other metrics? EF: In banker’s parlance, HotChalk is a Stage 4 Company with shipping product, revenue and sustainable growth. We will begin fundraising for global expansion in a year or
Forbes Column 08: The Real VCs of Silicon Valley
Here’s my new column on Forbes: The Real VCs of Silicon Valley. It addresses the quest of entrepreneurs to find seed funding as the financing eco-system is going through its own set of changes. Especially for first time entrepreneurs, as we have been discussing, the battle is tougher.
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 4)
SM: How do you specifically provide value for schools, teachers, parents and students? EF: Teachers are an extraordinary leverage point in the system because there are on average more than 100 students per secondary school teacher. While we’re focusing on serving all of the different constituencies, out of the gate for HotChalk it’s about teachers.