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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. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community. Open Source. Mumble – the first wide spread free and open source software for VoIP. Clubhouse attracts competition from every direction.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. Or you could use open-source software to develop your product, which is often free or low-cost. It helps you to focus on what’s important.

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Reduce need for 3rd party apps with open source solution

The Startup Magazine

Its secret is a business model that focuses on providing a premium service using open source solutions, 90% cheaper than its competition, according to Eleconomista. The post Reduce need for 3rd party apps with open source solution appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Hector Castillo, Founder and CEO at Noysi.

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WordPress vs Webflow

ConversionXL

Image source ). Ultimately the CMS you choose will impact how quickly you can ship and test products, sales pages and design your site and content. In addition to a wide variety of plugins, WordPress also has thousands of themes to choose from to help you quickly build and design a site to your liking.

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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. But working harder is not, in fact, smarter. We're cheaper.