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The Best Ways to Save Money as a New Startup

ReadWriteStart

Even if you have an angel investor or a venture capital (VC) firm backing you, you’ll have an abundance of expenses, limited income, and a finite amount of time before the money completely runs out. Rely on Open Source Software. Early in your startup’s development, you’ll likely be low on capital.

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for many years. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities. Software crowd sourcing. Good-cause crowd funding.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 The result was too much money in too few deals. The inevitable failures then damaged returns.

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Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up?

Startup Professionals Musings

As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for five years. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities. Software crowd sourcing. Proceed at your own peril.

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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

Both Sides of the Table

This is the final part of a 3-part series on the major changes in the structure of the software & the venture capital industries. Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The series started here if you want to read from the start.

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How To Save Money In Business: 10 Tips For Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

You can find free software on the internet that does almost the same thing as your subscription-based software. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. Did the software you subscribed to proved to be useful or did it not add much value?

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.