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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. Technological Convergence – The global equity market value associated with disruptive innovation could increase to 60% by 2030.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Look for needs that have a global appeal to a wide demographic. Global considerations include culture differences and translation. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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7 Risks Of Not Leveraging Team Member Data Analytics

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in the classic book, “ The Data Driven Leader ,” by Jenny Dearborn and David Swanson.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

customer development. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. Some general customer development slides click here. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. agile engineering.

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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

could reach $66 billion by the end of 2018; globally, it is expected to reach $170 billion by 2020. Marcus has drafted and negotiated complex multimillion-dollar software development, licensing and services deals with Fortune 500 companies, and has developed and implemented an open source software strategy for a large global ERP vendor.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Global search engine market share in May 2023 (source) However, since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, user habits (and perhaps expectations) began to change. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.