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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Founder retains control. Governance. Cash collateral.

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How To Save Money In Business: 10 Tips For Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. Some websites offer free vector graphics, free icons, free stock photos, and more. Social media is free, too, (if you don’t buy ads) so make sure to maximize its use to reach and interact with your customers.

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The future of service marketplaces is AI

VC Cafe

Every industry that requires humans to create original work—from social media to gaming, advertising to architecture, coding to graphic design, product design to law, marketing to sales—is up for reinvention. The generative AI application layer (Source: Sequoia ). Synthetic media landscape (Source: Bessemer ).

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The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

This is going to be BIG.

The features in Flickr seeded the consumer web gene pool for the following 7 or 8 years--tagging, favoriting, commenting, permalinks direct to content, newsfeeds, social consumption of media, sharing and embedding. He said that Flickr taught us all about social applications--and gave birth to Web 2.0

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Generative AI: Incumbents vs. Upstarts

VC Cafe

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. Don’t get me wrong, AI is no silver bullet.

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Ten Holiday Fulfillment Tips For Small-To-Medium-Sized Sellers

YoungUpstarts

Any failure keep stock availability of hot items during the holiday season is a lost sale; holiday shoppers won’t wait. Aron is a veteran eBay seller, former eBay employee, and a longtime author and editor in the e-commerce and open source spaces. Aron Hsiao, Ph.D. is head of communications at Terapeak.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Thanks to Deaver Brown, Simply Media ! #16- 30- Workiva.