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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Absolutely.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2).

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Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One.

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Open Source, For-Profit Startups – “FairSoftware is the place to start and grow your online business. The economy has some effect, certainly, but as a predictor of success it’s a rounding error compared to the founders.

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Lesser Known Traits of Successful Founders

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. There are traits that successful founders possess that tend to be weaker or absent in people who are never quite able to make it work. So today I want to focus on a handful of lesser known traits that will contribute to your success as a founder.

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

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Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. What It Takes To Recruit A Technical Co-Founder. Particularly if she is at what is essentially a co-founder speed dating event.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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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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Hear me on the Startup Success Podcast

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Check out my book Like this post?