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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community. Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage.

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The Best Ways to Save Money as a New Startup

ReadWriteStart

Oftentimes, new startups are inclined to cut costs that seem superfluous or unnecessary for the core business model to function. But when you cut something that is essential in business — it is problematic; digital marketing is the best way for a startup to increase brand awareness and attract new paying customers.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

Wikipedia isn’t the most reliable source in the world, but it’s good enough to get a brief overview. Moreover, I like inspiring myself with interesting online business models and Wikipedia is a great example of a user-generated content-based website. It led the way to a new kind of business model and changed the game.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”.

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Moving At The Speed Of ‘What’s Next’: Subscription Business Models Spur Continuous Innovation

YoungUpstarts

As business models rotate toward subscription services, if technical developments don’t keep pace, a crucial piece of the puzzle will be missing. Not to mention they need to align themselves with the open source communities defining them.