The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

As another of the best tech tips, keep in mind that tech can transform a business and be a smart area to invest in, but you can also end up spending a fortune when it comes to equipment and software. Open-source software. Finance deals to spread to the cost. Buying second hand. Buying lesser-known brands.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI), which is essentially a set of tools and programs that make software ’smarter’ in a way an outside observer thinks the output is generated by a human, is starting to break out on the global stage. For most in Asia, AI in its most basic forms is already evident in daily lives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

In this model, sometimes called micro-financing or peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, you borrow money from a number of people online and pay them back after the project is finished. Software crowd sourcing. A good example site, and one of the earliest in this category, is IndieGoGo. Debt-based crowd funding.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

You can find free software on the internet that does almost the same thing as your subscription-based software. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. Did the software you subscribed to proved to be useful or did it not add much value?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . > 14,000 public nodes . > 1) Generalizable Payments .

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. Investment opportunities will abound as data ops becomes the new dev ops and the need for pipelining software to go from raw data to prepped data increases.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a few years ago, primarily for software and web applications. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? 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.

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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: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. So angel and seed stage investors’ returns will be dependent on good times continuing or on the ability of their portfolio companies to get financed. This only becomes noticeable in down markets.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a few years ago, primarily for software and web applications. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Contractors should also be prepared with customer-friendly financing options. Fifth, software systems can now develop ad campaigns for new listings automatically. Now, open source and low code tools make it easier for developers and product teams to start experimenting and executing AI/ML into their own products and processes.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

The ability to have a third party finance a solar project and guarantee a fixed energy cost or amount of savings was a major development that helped bring about current market conditions. Software with real time electricity market data should help me make that decision. Here are some of the areas that I’m excited about: .

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 25, 2019

Use SaaS & Open Source Software. You will need some kind of software for things like planning projects, word processing, bookkeeping and tracking customers. Web-based services like SourceForge have an index of open source and/or cloud version of any software you may need.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 20, 2019

Decentralized finance platforms have recently gained in importance (especially Maker) and the amount of ETH locked up in these instruments is increasing significantly (see [link] ). If the underlying platform acts mostly like an open-source software library but “states” are not stored on the protocol level (e.g.

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Gust

AUGUST 9, 2014

CluelessCo is an internet startup company seeking $2 million of equity financing to fund our company for at least one year. A Software-as-a-Service company using open source and cloud computing technologies. Software will be created in these 6 different areas: Browser-based operating system. Contestant B.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

It is the focus for state and federal governments worldwide, many finding ways to reward innovators with tax incentives or investors with tax credits to finance innovative new enterprises. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers. My experience describing innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Active software engineers probably get two offers a month or more. I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. Or even contribute to an open source project. I was lucky enough to have worked for Yahoo! YHOO ) in its second act. But such a connection can be long-lasting and meaningful.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 22, 2008

We certainly had some fits and starts tackling this data problem by utilizing a software-only approach built on top of open source software and delivered on commodity machines, but with this funding and our continued customer momentum, we are certainly on the right track.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

One of the reasons I moved to Forward was to be in the vanguard of change for early stage company finance. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

My friends at Standing Cloud have closed another $3 million financing from us ( Foundry Group ) and Avalon Ventures. They’ve also added a long time friend, co-investor, and amazing entrepreneur Will Herman to the board. Standing Cloud is a great example how one of our funding strategies plays out.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Closed for You, Open For Us. innovation in the U.S. In the U.S.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

It is the focus for state and federal governments worldwide, many finding ways to reward innovators with tax incentives or investors with tax credits to finance innovative new enterprises. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers. And millions of innovators are at work extending these capabilities.

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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). Almost certainly accounting is a support service and should be outsourced (unless, perhaps, you’re selling accounting software and you need to eat your own dogfood!).

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a couple of years ago, primarily for software and web applications. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

As far as I can tell it is still the greatest software code we’ve ever developed. It is totally open source and varies in its use dependent on many things including the geography in which it is used. entrepreneurship business code developing entrepreneurs Finance startups technology' Yes, we’re all coders.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

4 of our portfolio companies raised Series B financings with close to $70mm raised and an average financing size greater than $17mm?—?announced areas we are keen on are securing open source at the dev level, managing security policies in enterprise for microservices architecture, IoT security, and biometrics.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. This feature makes it more likely that you’ll receive prompt and useful responses.

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