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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced.

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard. Will they accept an open-source state channel? system to run the most advanced distributed casino platform in the world. But why isn’t this happening? A New System.

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Generative AI that can do WHAT?

VC Cafe

From Open Source LLMs, to new APIs, both startups and tech giants continue to push the envelope on what is possible to automate and improve using generative AI technologies. Open Source might be the future, but it faces big hurdles Tools like Chatbot Arena are useful in comparing the quality of results on various models.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. Flexible VC offers you this. Early liquidity. Another tool is NoteGenie.io.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

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). IP Location Tools. Open X (Open source Ad server).

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

They might flock to new, open source solution, to reduce platform fees and increase their share. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP.