Version One Ventures
MARCH 20, 2019
Crypto / blockchain has always been as much of a business model innovation as a technical innovation…. Business model innovation : issuing tokens to give users / participants in the platform a stake in the project. Technical innovation : running a decentralized ledger / platform at scale.
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. of founders can’t or don’t want to build a business that way. The RBI investment model better aligns incentives between VCs and a founder who chooses to bootstrap. of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%
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David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials.
Hippoland
OCTOBER 16, 2016
Open source libraries (such as TensorFlow) make technology more accessible for less skilled or self-taught developers such as myself to use. Growing a business is already quite hard, but a couple of things to consider: 1) Because you are not monetizing, if you are unable to fundraise, it becomes difficult to keep the boat afloat.
blog.captainrecruiter.com
MARCH 8, 2012
Im trying to create a technology enabled recruiting service for an unproven business model. Even though the business is making money now, its still a big risk for anyone involved. Or Gimp, or the 1000s of other open source projects, built for free by software engineers. Not business people, software engineers.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 19, 2010
No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
Some startups die because their business model is platform-dependant. Bootstrapped companies have no such luxury. WordPress itself is open source; Automattic (the company behind WordPress) couldn't kill off this community if they tried. Companies like TweetUp and Ad.ly They "survived.".
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