David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It’s for people who are doing this work day in and day out, and who want to be part of an organization that's trying to do that globally and accelerate the pattern of change. I would love to see a truly cooperative, truly participatory organization at a global scale that exists expressly for the purpose of making the world a better place.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system with various templates used for building a website. Mark Burke is a blogger and a business consultant in Alcor , a global investment bank. He loves writing informative blog posts to help small business owners and startup founders in their entrepreneurial journey.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. The series started here if you want to read from the start.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

It also shows the huge global market opportunity that is in front of Camunda as demand for open, cloud-native process automation solutions that can orchestrate processes end-to-end is quickly reshaping the market.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The Perfect Storm. This never ends well.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 26, 2021

We back mission-driven founders, those who will stop at nothing to solve a deep pain point that they know well. In particular, crypto projects are already set up for this global mindset: their platforms are immediately accessible on a worldwide basis and their open-source nature has always relied on distributed teams. .

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

Global brands such as BBC, Sony, MTV, and the New York Times use WordPress as their go-to platform to host and display their content. Image source ). Image source ). Let’s take a look at how both WordPress and Webflow compare on a variety of essential factors. A brief history of WordPress.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 19th, 2012.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 5, 2020

And I have heard from a number of US crypto projects that have been abandoned by the founders because of regulatory threats to their business. This is particularly true in crypto that often operates with distributed teams, an open source spirit and on the idea of global currencies. Crypto needs to be regulated.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Founder.org founder Michael Baum. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. RW : Tell me about Founder.org.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Building Your Business on Open Source Data 10:00 am at Galvanize Featuring Data.world co-founder and CTO Bryon Jacob, this panel will explore the increasingly important role of open source data science in the startup economy. How can you leverage open source data science tools to build your business?

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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. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

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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. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? When you outsource…at least in the early days…it matters little wheter you pick a local bank or a global one. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2018

With the current global movement for women’s rights and equality, IWD 2018 has spawned numerous initiatives including #PressForProgress and #TimeIsNow. The idea there is that “the dynamics will change when capital flows equally to any talented founder, no matter his or her gender, race, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic.”

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 16, 2015

With the Global EIR program , pioneered by Massachusetts and Colorado , a model has been developed for companies to partner with universities to allow entrepreneurs to become exempt from the stifling H1-B visa cap. We are going to "open source" our learnings from Massachusetts and Colorado in the coming months. Related articles.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 Winding Tree has created the world’s first open marketplace for travel. Winding Tree Co-Founders: CEO Maksim Izmaylov (left) and COO Pedro Anderson (right). SXSW attendees are also invited to Meet the Finalists from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday, March 16.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. Look at the 500 largest companies in the world (Fortune Global 500). It’s a problem. created 26. Level the playing field.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8 For example, Tiger Global, a crossover fund which was one of the most active venture investors in 2021 went from 194 deals in 2021 to a mere 20 in 2023 and has been trying to actively sell its positions in the secondary market at steep discounts to get liquidity.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

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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. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

Google Glass and Google’s integrative, open-sourced and out-of-the-box risks are ones that Apple, with its perfected boxes of silver-shiny goodness, should watch closely. This is the most radical redesign we have seen from Apple in recent years and the announcement was met by Twitter trends in addition to analog-applause.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

An entire entrepreneurial ecosystem was built up around this model including venture capitalists who would fund the big investments provided there was a big market, entrepreneurs who would start the companies and seasoned executives who would take over once the business outgrew the founders. AWS is a great example. Bookmark the permalink.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 16:54) Jen discusses making open source tools. (19:16)

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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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. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

So the alternative of a global currency will emerge. Probably as a function of the gold standard (global price of gold as the trading valuation mechanism) with some form of digital instant and unseen conversion from our home currency into some quantum derived from gold. They have a willingness to ‘open source’.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present. View More » Startups Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social N. Kim Kardashian Tops Bing’s Most Pop. View More » Tech WikiLeaks Hit By Another DDoS Attack 4 Awesome Photo Sharing Alternatives. Verizon Wireless Set to Launch 4G Net. The 3 Biggest Stories in Tech & Busin.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The founders of this week’s Small Business Spotlight, Bridge the Gap Villages , thought that travelling could be more than that. Founders Jenny and Jimmy talk more below about the business of bringing tourists and locals together: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 25, 2013

Pertino’s concept was to build a cloud-based global network, requiring no specialized hardware or virtual private networks. Spiceworks’ co-founder Jay Hallberg says three to four years ago the Spiceworks team was “dreaming big that someday we’d have a company launch within Spiceworks.” Where To Find Qualified Beta Testers? Speed Wins.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Once we can see opportunities for truly global efficiency gains, all that remains is to ensure our team actually makes room for those investments.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders. When we started our business, only a few global tech businesses were also located in Berlin – most famously SoundCloud.

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