Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff. Sales and marketing costs. Marty Zwilling.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. The concept poses both great benefits and significant challenges to entrepreneurs. If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. in place before you expand.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. How do we do this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff. Sales and marketing costs. Marty Zwilling.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

“We’re trying to find entrepreneurs who are thinking of it as another stage in the company,” he said. “Entrepreneurs who sell to Google are doing it because they have a vision of what they’re trying to do,” Lawee told attendees. Nice piece and certainly one that covers what many entrepreneurs think.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research - new turtle mascot, open source code, cloud services from amazon, telescopes. One polling machine missing today.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Just don’t call Feld on the phone. “I hate the phone,&# he says.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. For VC’s and entrepreneurs the gold rush to liquidity was on.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

TokyoYuki Question: What about giving an added incentive to potential developers, in exchange for part of up-front fees, a percentage of the revenue generated from the app/program? View More » Business The 12 Days of Holiday Revenue Maximi. View More » Startups Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social N. Saitek Executive.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

AngelList is brilliantly designed to make it easy for investors to write checks to entrepreneurs. Naval and Nivi , the founders of AngelList, took the very best social mechanics from Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn to create a “social proof” that ultimately makes investors comfortable writing checks. Social Media.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff. Sales and marketing costs.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research – new turtle mascot, open source code, cloud services from amazon, telescopes. One polling machine missing today.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Are we seeing a time in which pre-revenue companies are more valuable than our offline institutional brands? The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. .&#

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

In my past 14 year journey as an online entrepreneur, I went through mistakes that I can’t help to notice that others also tend to make when they just started. Hold your horses my new entrepreneur friend. You just a domain name, a web hosting account and online software, which could be free, thanks to open source.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff. Sales and marketing costs. Marty Zwilling.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I thought it might be nice to turn to my network of authors, strategists, social media executives, and entrepreneurs and ask them one question: “What is one prediction you’re seeing others make for 2014 that you just flat-out disagree with?”. Social media is the secret to success. Here’s what they had to say: 1.

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VC Cafe

JULY 8, 2012

First-time entrepreneurs shouldn’t wait for their “roast duck” either. Potential co-founders get to meet the entrepreneurs behind the startup (not the recruiters) and know the equity and salary up front. link] - a free job board for startups. link] - a job board selling listings for $99 a month, for developers.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Three Israeli entrepreneurs (Nir [Ofir], Yosi [Taguri] and Eran) were discussing how to promote their startups and decided that taking a trip to the US would be a good idea. Very grassroots, thought provoking for the students and a great opportunity to collect feedback on their ventures from potential customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! This never existed a decade ago.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

The aim of many entrepreneurs is to take a business idea and convert it into a professional and functioning business on a low budget. Bootstrapping is a potentially very exciting prospect to an entrepreneur. Its not always a heavy, organized slog being an entrepreneur. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too. For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. social network/web analysis/etc.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

And in this very unique case, we figured out how to maximize revenue and profit by branding and product line extensions. Marketings job is to take engineering products and use them to maximize revenue and profit. We did that when we surveyed our customers. We would use this same idea 10 years later at E.piphany.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Should be read by any web entrepreneur.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 The challenge will be getting people used to this - hence the 25 years. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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