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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Even if they did, what if the assumption – that we had developed a better approach to teaching entrepreneurship – was simply mistaken?

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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

Here are just a few things you can do by leveraging data analytics: Gain a better understanding of changing customer preferences Discover new business opportunities Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in your operations Minimize and better allocate advertising costs Provide greater customer support through automated chat.

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APWT Women Panel on Mobile Paradigm

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Over at HackerDojo , I attended a womens panel on “Mobile Paradigm&# organized by Asian Professional Women in Technology. The panel consisted of a CEO of a travel guide app for the iPad, a bootstrap developer of many iPhone apps and an iPad app, and a marketing person from a Shazam-competitor app. What worked for them?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. Innovative. Disruptive.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

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. And he is not afraid to take bold bets on new technologies and business models.

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

What’s the hottest trend in business right now? Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Apple manufactures products, owns retail stores and also has an open platform for developers to build and sell apps that makes the products Apple sells even more desirable. Sharing economy apps such as Uber and Airbnb?

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