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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. Technological Convergence – The global equity market value associated with disruptive innovation could increase to 60% by 2030.

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Open-source Something Often

Diego Basch

If you write code for a living, when was the last time you released something as open source? Assuming you take pride in your work (if you don’t… well), open-source code is an incentive to: Make sure the code is not horrendously embarrassing. What have you open-sourced for me lately?

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. The class is organized, led and delivered by Startup Weekend , the global non-profit that teaches entrepreneurs how to launch a startup in 54 hours. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here.

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8 Tactics To Make You A Fearless Business Innovator

Startup Professionals Musings

As markets continue to change ever more rapidly through new technology and innovation, the global social, economic, and business environment will quickly evolve as well. If you don’t keep it top of mind today, then you are going to be left behind. Instill a sense of urgency in your business team.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Look for needs that have a global appeal to a wide demographic. Global considerations include culture differences and translation. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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7 Risks Of Not Leveraging Team Member Data Analytics

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. According to Gallup’s often quoted global engagement survey , only 21 percent of workers are now fully engaged in their job, which is hugely expensive in productivity. Subjectively measuring employee engagement.

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Benefits of Bitcoin

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and published as an open-source code in January 2009. Bitcoin mining requires significant computing power; therefore, Bitcoin miners charge transaction fees for the service they provide to process Bitcoin transactions globally. Bitcoin block info].