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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models.

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Shimel Blogs on Open Source

Feld Thoughts

When Alan started writing his column for Network World he asked me for introductions to a bunch of our portfolio companies that were using open source. Earlier today, Alan wrote an article on Standing Cloud titled Seeding the Cloud with Open Source, Standing Cloud Makes It Easy. The Re-Rise of Open Source.

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Israel Generative AI predictions for 2024

VC Cafe

billion in annualised revenue , an a myriad of new companies were born, from open source LLMs to application layer startups that were able to move fast and do much more with less. Open source LLMs have been improving at a rapid pace, have an active developer community and can be an attractive alternative, if managed properly.

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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. AI – tax planning or wealth management augmented and in some cases replaced with AI. Complex transactions move from services ?

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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 last two chapters deal with scale and management of growing startups. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here. Class Syllabi, My Lecture Slides and Student Presentations.

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Taking Vendor Management to the Next Level

Transformify

Igor Balamut is providing services as a Senior Symfony PHP Engineer at Transformify, a Workforce & Vendor Management System. Igor, what do you think about the technology empowering vendor management systems ( VMS)? Vendor Management Systems are supposed to simplify complex processes, but how do they do that?

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

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? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.