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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. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. trillion by 2030.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 The irony is that the company that led the “no software” movement is the one that bought Mulesoft, a company where 1/2 of its revenue is from software installed on-premise.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

we didn’t have to support 3 database types, worry about network configurations, etc. Also note that AJAX finally took off when Google open-sourced a bunch of its internally built AJAX frameworks. But the heterogenous environment was practically eliminated. We didn’t have to worry about which computer you were on.

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!$n’ So how would Alfred, coming off a role managing thousands of people, billions of dollars in revenue, and achieving an $8.5B

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What type of capital should you raise, and from who?

David Teten

I wrote recently about Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Since then, I’ve talked with a number of other firms, and greatly expanded my database: Who are the major Revenue-Based (RBI) Investing VCs? Revenue-based investing VC. Venture debt.

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. Plus, by the time you’re ready to expand into a paid service, your business should have some revenue trickling in the front door to justify the upgrade. Do you have a business idea keeping you awake at night?

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