Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 12, 2019
Image via Flickr by Phil Gyford Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 5, 2007
However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. 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.
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VC Cafe
MARCH 1, 2024
Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Spatial computing – with the launches of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 a new personal computing platform may evolve over the next decade.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2022
Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. Underestimating absenteeism and accident costs.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
Dries Buytaert created Drupal, an open source content management platform, in his dorm room. The post The end of ownership: The zero-marginal-cost economy appeared first on The Next Web. He is also the co-founder and CTO at Acquia, a company providing enterprise software for websites and commerce.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 30, 2022
As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 10, 2017
Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. Underestimating absenteeism and accident costs.
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