article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Are startup burn rates out of control? Hiring startup engineers? 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications | Datamation – crowdspring.co/1yevQN7. How Everything We Tell Ourselves About How Busy We Are Is A Lie | Fast Company – [link] crowdspring.co/1uH6HVo. 1s3Gfsi.

article thumbnail

The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Technology costs. Sales and marketing costs.

Cost 255
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

article thumbnail

You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Technology costs. Sales and marketing costs.

article thumbnail

The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Gust

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Technology costs. Sales and marketing costs.

Cost 139
article thumbnail

Be Part of the Entrepreneurial Revolution

Startup Professionals Musings

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Technology costs. Sales and marketing costs.

Burn Rate 125
article thumbnail

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending.

Lean 244