SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

- Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents. It’s not a surprise that the most common questions that we get from other founders are about PR.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

SEC Greenlights One Style Of Equity Crowdfunding For Startups | TechCrunch – [link]. The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link]. . “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.”

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. To that I say baloney. Start a blog.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

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%. The other major trend seems to be pulling in the opposite direction.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? At least Pidgin folks openly say “we are GTK+ front-end to libpurple&#.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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