Business Model Open Source Revenue Seed Stage 
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 29, 2017
Great blog post by CockroachDB on open source business models and their plans to make money: If you’re serious about building a company around open source software, you must walk a narrow path: introduce paid features too soon, and risk curtailing adoption. Optimizing for Price at Seed Stage is a Mistake.
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ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source.
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. As a result, for these kinds of businesses, investors often don’t expect that companies can earn revenue right out of the gate, because they may not legally be able to.
Mucker Lab
APRIL 6, 2023
Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. For GitLab, we had an open source version of the product. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 15, 2020
That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. I liked having something physical.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. You can’t scale a large business quickly on your $500,000 alone.
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