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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

Austin Startup

This 4-part story, however, explores the Austin ecosystem based on the 4Cs framework —  culture , capital, customers , and competencies. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

In the early stages of every technology, the market is usually dominated by products built for early adopters who are typically tech savvy – this mainly consists of developers who like to have full control over a product and its features. 1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Less established regulatory framework. . has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Short track record.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? Also see Why I Invested in SparkToro.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. It can help you be a strong athlete, which makes you an attractive early-stage player.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Lean is The Engine for the Ambidextrous Organization. Lessons Learned. Corporate Innovation needs Lean tools.

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

Building collaboration tools is the next logical step after they've already built the only free open source depository of legal documents --similar to how Github isn't just a place to store your code, but to work on it with others. Imagine what open source could do to the law. This is how software used to get developed.