Design partners, or the first few users of a company's software, are often a key part of the early software development process.
Marc Andreessen, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to
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A collection of open source frameworks for helping designers and engineers to grow at work
All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders | Andreessen Horowitz
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...
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Matt Webb
I have worked with some of the world’s largest firms on design-led product invention using new technology for over 20 years. I was MD of two London startup accelerators with R/GA Ventures, and co-founder and CEO of pioneering design studio BERG, where we shipped connected products and got work into the New York MoMA.
Why designing for open source can be so difficult
I design interfaces and ship the code myself. Portfolio and writing from Gilli Sigurdsson.
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Designers now turn ideas into working products. Explore a curated collection of apps, tools, websites, and experiments designed, built, and shipped by designers.
Elastiq GmbH – David Aerne – Computational Designer
Frontend Developer: Exploring ways to blend code and design while raising the quality and creative freedom of both. I use my passion and enthusiasm as a tool to promote ideas and skills.
Local-first Software
Exploring software architecture that returns data to users and enables collaboration in every tool.
We Need More Open Source in Gaming | Andreessen Horowitz
When it comes to free software, there’s a sharp cultural divide between the tech world and the gaming world. It’s normal for a startup to make heavy use of open source, and it’s normal for a big tech company to give away huge codebases for free. This is because the tech world understands the benefits...
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The Secrets of Successful Open Source Business Models
Finding the right model for your open-source startup
Barry Prendergast — UX Strategy & Design — Berlin, Germany
Barry Prendergast is a designer, researcher, and strategist specialising in outcome-driven design for complex digital products and services.
