Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Unfortunately, even today, building a good product doesn’t guarantee you a business. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 03/28/2019. Don’t get caught short.

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Cost Founder Software Review Startup 264

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

With the immense success of cloud platforms and S oftware – as -a- Service (SaaS) models on one hand and the increase of subscription services on the other, it’s clear that software offered as a subscription is becoming the new standard. Not to mention they need to align themselves with the open source communities defining them.

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Business Model Asia SQL Cloud 138

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

A business model that requires a strong network effect is a long play. Image source ). By 2019, WhatsApp had 1.5 Musk, by making his fast chargers available to others and open-sourcing Tesla’s patents , has intentionally filled a potential moat. Note: As of April 2019, Zappos had 2.5

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Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. As a result, we carefully choose to invest in good brands and operators that we believe can execute on their plan with the help of a reliable and flexible capital partner. v3: Austin (Roadshow 2019).

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

These products encourage all individuals to participate in and have a point of view on investing, rather than operating under the assumption that it’s strictly for the wealthy. OnDeck struggled with this, as evidenced by the low LTV to CAC (which had halved, pre-COVID from 3Q 2019 ).

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IPO Stock Software Review API 36

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 3, 2018

Every business — theoretically, at least — has customers, but that doesn’t mean that every business needs a CRM. There are, however, a few different business models that will be able to realize significant benefits from an investment in CRM software. Updated September 2019.

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Artificial Inteligence Agile Software Small Business 83