The Startup Magazine

MARCH 25, 2019

For your new business venture to be successful, you need to focus on minimizing startup costs as much as possible. Stores such as Aaron Rents & Sells chain, websites like Quickr and OLX, and auctions are good sources to find used equipment. To keep your overhead costs low, try working from home or using remotely located offices.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

When used correctly, tech can streamline operations, make work easier for your team, increase output, reduce costs, promote the business, keep customers happy and much more. Find Ways To Keep Tech Costs Down. A few of the best ways to keep your business tech costs down include: Leasing instead of buying. Open-source software.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

You may be able to save on shipping costs, as well. For example, you can replace water coolers with a filtered water pitcher to save on cost. This is one of the best cost-saving ideas for small businesses. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

So your cost per billable hour is: Nominal Cost: $30/hour. Recomputing the cost of the remaining billable hours, we have: 20 WD/month, $31/hour. That changes the annual cost of your employee from $60,000 to $69,000 with an associated change in hourly cost: 20 WD/month, $36/hour. If the (potential?)

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” That said, nothing is cost-free. More complex cost of capital calculation. Flexible VC can allow Impact VCs to thread this needle.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market. 2007 was the watershed year. more than 5 years ago?—?and

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2018

There has been a lot of speculation around cryptocurrencies and this has in many ways obscured the fact the blockchain, the open-source and decentralized ledger that drives these digital currencies has the potential of radically transforming how ownership is verified.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2017

Contributing to these trends are less expensive and more powerful hardware, and open source end-to-end connected data platforms that maximize the value of data-in-motion and securely store, manage and perform complex processing of data-at-rest. This now makes it possible for businesses to hone in on new business opportunities.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. Blog Archives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

This term is replacing “startup incubator,” which is a facility provided by an individual, university, or local community for any new startups to congregate for almost no cost, with the hope of learning from each other. Despite these pundits, I sense a fundamental change in the early-stage financing eco-system. Business accelerator.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Let’s now explore the major developments and ultimate use cases for the Lightning Network in two categories: A) payments/finance and B) Web3. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . When they can invest the marginal engineering hour in listing a new token that drives revenue vs. saving some costs on settlement, it’s hard to justify.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. The founders.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against. No startup ownership or financial return should be expected, but contributors can enjoy the satisfaction of furthering non-profits or causes with a passion to change the world.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2014

This means that in a data driven economy, areas that previously did not affect insurance and finance industries are starting to. The world in 20/20 will be one which is open source, built by crowd dynamics, collaborative, and all about the leverage of new data points created by businesses and their customers.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

1) The cost of solar has fallen off a cliff . It’s been shocking to see how few people understand what’s happened with the cost of solar energy over the last decade and the impacts it will ultimately have on society. For context, the all-in cost of coal or natural gas is in the range of 6-7 cents / kWh.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

This term is replacing “startup incubator,” which is a facility provided by an individual, university, or local community for any new startups to congregate for almost no cost, with the hope of learning from each other. Despite these pundits, I sense a fundamental change in the early-stage financing eco-system. Business accelerator.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. He acknowledged the importance of the growing seed fund movement in creating a new wave of cost-effective innovation. You’ll have to find alternate ways of financing your dreams and that’s OK.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. Corporate America is pressured to decrease costs and improve customer interactions and every Fortune 500 is a technology company.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Partly as a result of the relatively low tax burden, the overall cost level is an order of magnitude lower than in the coastal tech hubs. Having said that, access to finance is getting better due to the influx of techies and the local scene maturing.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever. 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.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Nic Brisbourne explains how the falling cost of doing business in tech is making space for thriving regional ecosystems, calling for better local funds in these new emerging hubs. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change. They are unable to provide for the needs of some companies as they grow.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. million in venture financing. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. Getting funded is hardly the end-all.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2017

According to Obreahny O’brien from Ernst & Young, blockchain is not necessarily a reduced cost play, at least for now. As standards and shared uses emerge, these platforms will serve the development community almost as existing open-source development platforms do. Current Obstacles.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Contractors should also be prepared with customer-friendly financing options. As the travel industry rebounds from the pandemic, partnerships between these various entities will become more common, creating one-stop shops to meet all needs, reduce costs and improve current services. Thanks to Andre Kazimierski, Improovy ! #7-

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Innovation and improvement occurs in Horizon 1 on process, procedures, costs, etc. To help Horizon 2 and 3 organizations navigate all the processes, procedures and metrics the company has built to support Horizon 1 activities, individuals from support organizations (legal, finance, procurement, etc.)

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

To start a new business, your costs may include: your brand design (logo, business cards, and website). basic infrastructural costs like phone and internet service, invoicing software, etc…. marketing and advertising costs. manufacturing costs. marketing and advertising costs. manufacturing costs.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 20, 2019

Decentralized finance platforms have recently gained in importance (especially Maker) and the amount of ETH locked up in these instruments is increasing significantly (see [link] ). If the underlying platform acts mostly like an open-source software library but “states” are not stored on the protocol level (e.g.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

No revenues, no costs. Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. 3) Open source your real estate. Bo from RoseTech even volunteered to videotape the sessions. So what role, then, should local schools be playing in the innovation ecosystem? It was easy peasy.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

One of the reasons I moved to Forward was to be in the vanguard of change for early stage company finance. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10. At Forward we can benefit from all of these trends.

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