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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

Customer Service Provides More Revenue. Offering service and support to your customers is simple to do, and what’s more, it provides opportunities for more revenue for you. Making a wrong choice will cost you in many ways, so make a list of what you’re looking for and be sure your choice checks all the boxes.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. 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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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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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. It took us longer to get into revenue, but the freemium was a real accelerator for us. A year in, we had great usage and no revenue. in just 30 months.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

They cost money. For sure if they remove everything there and rent the space, the renting revenues will pay for a big slice of monthly cloud cost. How can they still use its machines and spend millions of dollars buying more and more storage every 6 months? For me it’s a waste of time. I’ll explain why.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As people realized streamlining client-side development really matters to cost-effectively build software, new tool sets emerged to streamline the process. Also note that AJAX finally took off when Google open-sourced a bunch of its internally built AJAX frameworks. The costs of multi-platform development are too expensive.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While questions remain around the long-term legal feasibility of such a solution, the larger point is that the speed and cost benefits of Lightning can now be abstracted away for the end user’s benefit without any knowledge of bitcoin the asset. . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. 6) Identity Issuance .

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As Flickr did for the social web and consumption models, Github uses an open, social design for all sorts collaborative models, like Docracy 's open source contact negotiation tools, GrabCAD for mechanical engineers, or K nowable for physical DIY projects.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Unpakt is the first company in the industry that allows users to compare movers and costs in real-time before booking their move online. Businesses that operate online are the most likely to use the freemium revenue model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. This will be further enabled by automation and manufacturing where the low-cost labour market trading advantage evaporates. Global e-commerce, lower living costs and higher living standards will create a renaissance for non-city places of great beauty.

Software Review 91

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

The next major entrant is the Android platform, an open source mobile operating system that has led to the introduction of several handsets that are based on this OS and many more to be released over time. it provides complete transparency in how much advertisers are paying, how much Burstly takes and what your revenue is.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever. Numbers are numbers, after all. June 13th, 2012.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. 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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Venture Capital 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

Equity 78

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The costs to start are much lower than ever (90% reduction in infrastructure costs to start a company through open source & web services) and large companies being created in many geographies. Time to massive revenue is the most compressed in history due to scale and Deflationary Economics.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. For example they can reduce component cost, introduce a line extension or create new versions of the existing product. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Networking Southern California Los Angeles 150

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Namely, windfall revenue from oil means that the Texas taxman does not collect personal or corporate income taxes (on the state level). You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

But the big payoff came when their discussions with medical device customers revealed an entirely new way to think about pricing —potentially tripling their revenue. At Linden Lab, delivered the open-sourced Second Life Viewer 2.0 Cost-based Pricing versus Value-based Pricing. the Customer Life Time (CLT)).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

So then, why are we teaching our students to trust fall without any revenues of their own to catch them? No revenues, no costs. You can tell me all you want about how many patents were filed at Columbia or wherever, or what they do in revenues—the future of the innovation in NYC is not in hard technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. How Much Does It Cost to Travel The World For One Year – [link]. The Power of the Rule of Three in Marketing Your Small Business – [link].

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. event I did last fall.

Technical Cofounder 150

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

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 Cody Candee, Bounce ! #22- 22- Mainstreaming of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Photo Credit: Maya Mikhailov.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Let’s look at each figure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. 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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