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Study finds most big open-source startups outside Bay Area, many European, and avoiding VC

TechCrunch

Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a new study. The “ ROSS Index ”, created by Runa Capital , lists the fastest-growing open-source startups with public repositories on GitHub every quarter.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Minimizing M&A mayhem, cybersecurity PM checklist, open source AI

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Given the tremendous barrier to entry, is it worth considering whether open source foundation models could level the playing field and also address concerns about privacy and bias?

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS pricing strategies, 2022 open source report, can Vine regrow?

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.” Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+ @yourprotagonist A Vine mess: The choice between rebooting and reviving old software Teach yourself growth marketing: Which metrics really matter? Teach yourself growth marketing: Which metrics really matter?

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5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups

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As an investor in many developer-first businesses, including Docker, Redis and Startree, these five metrics are what I look for: Developers are in the driver’s seat at most tech-first companies, and capturing their imagination will dramatically increase your GTM efficiency. User growth. Remember, not all users are created equal.

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MergeStat channels open source and SQL to bring ‘operational analytics’ to software engineering

TechCrunch

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. ” Being open source, of course, is also a big part of MergeStat’s flexibility promise. .

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observIQ Lauches Open Source Log Agent Project

DevOps.com

Blue Medora, after selling its core monitoring integration platform to VMware, today changed its name to observIQ and launched an open source agent project that will serve as the foundation of a log management tool to be delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application.