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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Spatial computing – with the launches of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 a new personal computing platform may evolve over the next decade.

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against. No startup ownership or financial return should be expected, but contributors can enjoy the satisfaction of furthering non-profits or causes with a passion to change the world.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against. No startup ownership or financial return should be expected, but contributors can enjoy the satisfaction of furthering non-profits or causes with a passion to change the world.

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The end of ownership: The zero-marginal-cost economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert created Drupal, an open source content management platform, in his dorm room. The sharing and collaboration practices of the internet are extending to transportation (Uber), hotels (Airbnb), financing (Kickstarter, LendingClub), music services (Spotify) and even software development (Linux, Drupal).

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Startup 101: “Open Source” Start up Legal Documents

VC Cafe

Legal docs don’t have to be a source of stress when you’re trying to set up a business. Don’t use these documents blindly ” Taylor Wessing – offers a suite of seed investment documents which are available on an open-source basis. Link: [link]. All docs are here: [link].

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Thoughts on the State of DeFi

Version One Ventures

With all of that said, I’m still extremely bullish on some version of p2p finance or DeFi eventually dominating financial markets. Its benefits are too big: fairer rates via cutting out middlemen, global access via trustless smart contracts, and composability via open source, auditable code.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more 2007 was the watershed year. more than 5 years ago?—?and and hasn’t abated.