Remove Bootstrapping Remove Business Model Remove Open Source Remove Product Development
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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Adriana has been a psychiatrist for 10 years; she understands the ins and outs of that business. Take the success of ITWatchDogs , the company I helped bootstrap and eventually sell (before Smart Bear).

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

you can now have the engineer who is also decent in business or a laywer who can be an entrepreneur and all these other crosspollinations. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,).

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source).