The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Go for open source tools. At the beginning stage, you need to cut down the cost to as low as possible. One of the ways of doing that is by using the open source tools for the job. Most of the open source tools are available for free and have a good community support. Figure 4 Source: The Tech Portal.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application. Angel Investor Business Development Hiring Jobs PHP SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora venture Android Drupal early stage first revenue leadership scalability Silicon Valley software Software Development tom nora'

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tips for helping you get you there include: Have a good website to serve as your business’s online hub (ideally, one with an Open-source CMS that’s feature-rich and offers the opportunity to take advantage of integrations, such as those for SEO and social media). You should handle everything yourself in the beginning.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney. Branding/Copy.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric. Tickets are available now and include dinner.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? But for early stage founders, I think there are two particular scenarios where PLG can be really helpful. So for early-stage founders, those are the two scenarios where PLG might be a great fit. That's the foundation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

So if a VC wants to work with really talented early-stage entrepreneurs there are times where they have to be willing to seed fund them in order to be in the deal. We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. A very well known early stage fund used to have a rule that they didn’t do follow ons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. They just dont need another authority figure in their life.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Approach the task like you would with hiring and speak to references from previous employers, and speak to prior co-workers (approach it casually). are full of smart tech people).

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Do you want them to be producing technology such as happens in the open source world? Jono Bacon: Because the companies that tend to fail in this is they hire a community manager and that community manager essentially acts as like an ambassador to the community. But in the early stages it does require a reasonable chunk of work.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc. Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

By being a part of the conversation, you just might catch the attention of a startup that’s hiring. Don’t wait to see a job posting : Actual startup job postings may not show up for quite some time, especially among those in the early stage. It’s a bold move, one that got him noticed, and hired, by the startup.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is applicable to other subscription businesses such as Open Source.) Of course, if you find a rep with a high dial to demo ratio and high close rate, study them, spread the best practices across the team, and hire more people with the same profile. Tagged with Metrics , SaaS , Sales & Marketing Machine.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. You might as well hire an outsourced team. Quotable Quotes.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

has released Stable Diffusion as the first truly open source text-to-image. To developers and technically minded people, it’s this cool thing, but to illustrators it’s very upsetting because it feels like you’ve eliminated the need to hire the illustrator” “I Went Viral in the Bad Way”, The Atlantic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. On the one hand, I do think that there's a role for basically high risk tolerance faster, like early stage investment mentality and research and academia. That's how they can hire people.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Look for people writing about hiring, about real estate about small business in general. More details → Jobs by Simply Hired. Open Source Lists. Erica- These are excellent tips. Alexis Maybank.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then the other thing is companies are having — if you talk to anybody running a company, they are having real trouble hiring enough qualified people. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives. All other code increasingly uses a ton of open source code.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college. No phone system.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. SXSW Panel: Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups Arlan ????

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 21, 2015

There is no rule that says you have to hire a pricey graphic designer in order to generate beautiful, design-rich content. Of course, design specialists are a great resource to have on a team – but, for many earlier-stage businesses, increased costs and headcount may not be ideal. I create it for work. I create it for fun.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). On the matter of founders, we agreed that having a sole founder (and then hiring the really smart people) creates a more stable environment than a 50/50 partnership. Also, remember that the journey is the reward.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The rise of CVC volume is well documented (see post on VC Cafe), but what’s less discussed is funds started by mature startups or “new corporates” These are funds launched by venture backed companies to deploy capital into early stage startups innovating in their space. “Mature” startup funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2010

Hiring is hard. When you’re talking hiring for startups, the two are actually pretty similar—because joining a super early stage startup is essentially like getting married. They hire hackers, too. So is dating. You’re building a young team with a small amount of money. The reality just doesn’t reflect that.

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VC Cafe

JULY 8, 2012

If there’s a fit, Chris McCann from StartupDigest will personally introduce you via email to the person who makes the hiring decisions there – no dealing with nameless email addresses, resumes, or recruiting bs. All of this has created pockets of innovation throughout the world, and an increasingly high number of startups.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. Or maybe we can tempt you to a Seedcamp next year?

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