A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2016

For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? Now that Facebook has open-sourced their entire data center infrastructure, does that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Facebook as a social network?

Open Source 120

Open Source API Framework Salary 120

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.

Cost 255

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 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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Angel Investor Small Business Business Plan Intellectual Property 85

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Smith recruited top tech talent to serve across government collaborating on pressing issues, from data science, AI and open source, to inclusive economic growth and criminal justice reform.

Technical Cofounder 48

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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

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. An employee is normally paid a salary or wages. A part of Joel on Software. This community works best when people use their real names.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

 You probably have operating budgets for each department. Lastly, once you have this framework in place, make sure to benchmark your salary, bonus and equity for each position in your company using CompStudy data which allows you to narrowly focus on companies that meet your profile and the executive position in question.

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Venture Capital Metrics Startup Software Review 47

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.

Business Plan 64

Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

My starting salary was $27,000. There was no open source, no code repositories like GitHub, no knowledge hubs like StackExchange. I got to help a telecom operator decide whether or not to bid on 3G spectrum and how much to pay. Not operational. Not an operator. ” F**k. ” Not technical.

Marketing 385

Marketing Europe Engineer Networking 385

readwrite.com

JANUARY 25, 2013

Gartner claims that Big Data is overhyped and about to fall into the trough of disillusionment, but salaries for Big Data pros suggest that enterprises are. So much so, in fact, that enterprises are paying a premium to hire job candidates with Big Data-relevant technology skills, as Dice.coms 2012-2013 annual salary survey reveals.

Open Source 58

Open Source Salary Cloud IP 58

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.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

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

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Incorporate on any other day and you’ll be looking at filling out two business income tax returns for that year (one for the months when you were operating as a sole proprietor, and the second for those months after your incorporation became effective). View more jobs » Daniel Stoica Awesome Post!

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LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In my previous post, Why Leave A Six Figure Salaried Career For Online Entrepreneurship , I wrote about the various business ventures I have tried and tested over the years. by operating online). We tried to leverage our small operation as much as we could. Part of the explanation is that these products are cheap to begin with.

SEO 86

SEO PPC America Design 86

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Do you want them to be producing technology such as happens in the open source world? I mean, it’s one of the reasons why we go to work, we get a salary, why we respond to bonuses, why we get our 10th stamp on our coffee regulars’ card, or you want the air miles at United or Delta.

Community 55

Community Social Media Africa Kansas City 55

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Don’t forget to factor in operating overhead including accounting, legal, insurance, etc. Otherwise, you will have to offer actual compensation (read salary) in addition to corporate shares. If you don’t have the money to provide even a reduced salary up-front, find investors. Salaries/Bonuses.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Compensation : base salary, share of profits of management company, carry. Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. – Guaranteed salary from management company. Contact : to existing portfolio, to internal team resources, to LPs. name of the Fund).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Partner 60

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. They paid themselves small salaries and setup monetary goals for the business each month.

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Navigating the transition between a salaried employee and running your own consulting business can be tricky. Branding provides a reassuring level of professionalism that very small operations may struggle to establish. But, your operating costs are only a starting point. So, why are you still working for “the man”?

Small Business Administration 86

Small Business Administration Small Business Social Media Elevator Pitch 86

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But for every startup like that, there are twenty more that operate in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure.So Everyone knows these, because theyre big consumerbrands.

Startup 105

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Without receiving a real salary, I’d be wary of signing a non-compete in an area which I have domain expertise in. Which country’s laws does the corporate entity operate under? The founder who owns 51% of Company B can elect to pay himself a salary of $1 USD. You don’t have a defensible business model.

Sweat Equity 41

Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment. Who knows.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84