YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2017

Contributing to these trends are less expensive and more powerful hardware, and open source end-to-end connected data platforms that maximize the value of data-in-motion and securely store, manage and perform complex processing of data-at-rest. Autonomous systems.

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Asia Singapore Technical Review 150

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Papers give all entrepreneurial businesses the chance to build the exact business and operations they desire without being constrained by existing software. Thanks to Cody Crawford, Low Offset ! #12- 12- Apple & Steve Jobs.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 The irony is that the company that led the “no software” movement is the one that bought Mulesoft, a company where 1/2 of its revenue is from software installed on-premise.

Cloud 60

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

SiliconHills

AUGUST 28, 2012

Editor’s Note: Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio is a nonprofit research and engineering organization with more than 3,000 employees and revenue of $581 million last year. The post SwRI Leads Open Source Consortium for Robot Makers appeared first on SiliconHills. You can read more about the organization here.

Open Source 74

Open Source San Antonio Government Engineer 74

Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Government Will Love Small Again : Governments around the world will finally realise big powerful companies are reducing their tax revenue. Personal Operating Systems Will Arrive: Software systems will organise our personal lives. There will be near zero dumb devices that require electricity to operate.

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete 91

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. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

The next major entrant is the Android platform, an open source mobile operating system that has led to the introduction of several handsets that are based on this OS and many more to be released over time. it provides complete transparency in how much advertisers are paying, how much Burstly takes and what your revenue is.

Mobile 282

Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

Open source, permissionless code. Traditional games operate as walled gardens. This maximizes network effects, encourages creative expansion, and builds real community via ownership–all while securing additional revenue streams. Tokenomic incentive structures.

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Flash Architecture Security Community 156

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

So then, why are we teaching our students to trust fall without any revenues of their own to catch them? No revenues, no costs. If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind.

New York 116

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Snapchat may be a company with no revenue and an unrealistic valuation, but it is changing the way people think of messaging. Ouya is an open source Android-based gaming platform that is looking to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. Or it could be the next Facebook. Time will tell. CyanogenMod. IFTTT=If This Then That.

Startup 60

Startup Cofounder San Francisco Software Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 253

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2010

At the same time every computer company was writing its own operating system. Soon standard operating systems (e.g. In the last decade open source software (e.g Then they adopted standard microprocessors (e.g. x86 , ARM.) Windows, Linux ) emerged. LAMP ) emerged for building web servers.

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Customer Development Business Model Developer Customer 329

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A business plan is a document that outlines the financial and operational goals of your business. This section gives a brief overview of the industry sector your business will operate in. Operating plan. Any suppliers, manufacturing processes, and any other operating details also appear here. An industry overview.

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Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

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. Facilities and staff.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

Early Stage 231

Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

pre-revenue and maybe even pre-product), I recommend a discretionary plan, particularly when you're dealing with annual plans.  You probably have operating budgets for each department. And finally, once the business has achieved greater scale and size (50+ people, $10MM+ revenue, etc.) Bookmark the permalink.

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Venture Capital Metrics Startup Software Review 47

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

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. Facilities and staff.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Gust

JULY 8, 2012

Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 18, 2012

Software prices are dropping and the importance of local operating systems and having locally installed productivity software is declining which makes the future for Microsoft’s consumers software a challenging one. The interesting question is how challenging.

Software 94

Software Intellectual Property Open Source Business Model 94

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. Who funds the operating costs?

Massachusetts 113

Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

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. Facilities and staff.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

A survey from CompTIA indicates that organizations with telecommuting employees enjoy better productivity, lower operational costs, and can even find and retain talented workers at a higher rate. Open source collaboration. Efficiency depends on human co-operation. Lincoln: “Managers are responsible for efficiency.

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Cofounder Employee Open Source Community 229

Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

Growthink Blog

MAY 27, 2015

This is evidenced by both the huge sums of money companies are investing in BI ( forecast by IDC to grow to over $52B in 2016) and by the research that show "BI Best in Class" companies enjoy double the revenue growth and triple the profit growth relative to their “BI Average” competitors ( Gartner Group ). buying marketplace to navigate.

Open Source 48

Open Source Analytics Forecast Technology 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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. Facilities and staff.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. I classify a triple-threat as an entrepreneur who has the combined skill base of being technical, knowing how to market a product and running the operations side of a business.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. For GitLab, we had an open source version of the product. You still have a revenue goal to hit this quarter, something like that. They just want a lot of signups, a lot of visitors, then a lot of revenue.

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&#

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue. Obvious, isn’t it?

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2009

.  It can lead to a growth at all costs mentality, a lack of focus which means chasing too many opportunities at once, and a lax attitude on how to generate revenue.   With the new operating model of capital efficiency, a little amount of money can go a long way and help VCs generate excellent returns at much lower valuations. 

IPO 68

IPO Valuation Open Source Sales 68

ConversionXL

JULY 24, 2014

Improve Customer Engagement & Increase Revenue. The result was “a 25% increase in response rate beyond that generated by the existing system, which translates into an estimated $1 million of ad revenue every 19 months.”. Use An Open Source Predictive Analytics Product. These platforms include: R. PredictionIO.

Analytics 118

Analytics eCommerce Conversion Technical Review 118

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. Along with my partner Stuart Lander, who runs operations at Upfront and is a former lawyer, we have scoured through, debated and helped scores of companies make this determination. payroll protection.

Programming 279

Programming Affiliate SBA Government 279