Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting).

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. 9 Responses to Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO Startup Advice: Developer Stockholm Syndrome « Web Startup Help says: November 10, 2008 at 5:10 pm [.] startupcto

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

It is the focus for state and federal governments worldwide, many finding ways to reward innovators with tax incentives or investors with tax credits to finance innovative new enterprises. It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0").

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. I understand why he wants to differentiate himself but I wonder if a scorched Earth strategy against the main funding source for your company pays in the long run. We all know that.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. Both partners devote comparable finances, resources, and labor into making the business work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. The Exit Problem.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. In 2008 I was first time startup founder with no cash. Or Gimp, or the 1000s of other open source projects, built for free by software engineers. Hes right on so many levels.

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. Fred summed it up well just before Christmas: funding in 2008 isn’t going to be the party its been over the past 2 years, so hold onto your hats. P.S. Bonus points for spotting Fred in a Darth Vader mask in 2008!

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

The statements of Milton Friedman are precisely why finance commentators like Vice News producer and The Wisdom of Crowds author James Surowiecki have been so skeptical about Bitcoin going mainstream. The Icelandic krona suffered a similar fate after that country’s financial collapse in 2008. Bitcoin’s benefits to Ethereum.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

You know a lot about marketing or finance or… whatever. There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. Find partners or investors. Partnership.

Small Business Administration 86

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Product Launch After some financing-related delays, the products went on sale in Europe and Asia in the summer of 2008. Open source projects like Arduino and SuperCollider make iterative hardware development cheaper and faster than ever. The retail selling price was $40, exactly what we targeted.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A Y-Combinator startup itself, Optimizely was used by the groundbreaking online Obama campaign in 2008. An open source bit of software, Vanity allows you to conduct A/B testing on your site and returns a simple report back to you. You can use Optimizely even if the thought of coding makes you break out in a cold sweat.

Developer 73

Developer Software Review PHP Social Media 73

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

MagSuite – An open source marketing automation, sales force automation, accounting, service automation and inventory control system. Alfresco – Open source enterprise content management that offers collaboration, record management, knowledge management and more.

Software Review 78

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

And just as Groupon unleashed a frenzy of daily deal sites after its launch in 2008, Birchbox helped make 2011 a year filled with new subscription services for just about everything. Money and Finance Lists. Open Source Lists. Want monthly shipments of staple items like toothpaste ? Holiday Lists. Identity Lists.

New York City 83

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Soon they had grown into a shared space in San Francisco, and finally zozi got its own office space in August 2008. The startup launched in CEO and founder TJ Sassani’s house in Byron Bay, Australia, and then became a coffee-shop-based company when he moved to the U.S.

Cofounder 81

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. Founded in 2008, GitHub offers public and private source code hosting to companies and open source projects using either git or subversion.

Bootstrapping 78

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. Pricey, but based on my hourly rate it’s cheaper than the open source solution I used previously when you factor in upgrades, crashes, and manual workarounds for missing functionality. . +1

Software Review 52

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. Flash vs. HTML5: The "Pong" Version 37Signals Creates iPad-Only Web App An Open Source, HTML5 Framework for i. Code for America Chooses 20 Developer.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups. "  The beauty of having the option to select from "standard" options is that WSGR has included some market data , e.g. what percent of term sheets in up rounds in 2008 included this term.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. He then went on to work at Viacom and Juno in NYC. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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