NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 18, 2020

Applying for patent protection after already operating a business can be a long and drawn out process which is often not very successful. In most cases, you will also need to present your idea to third parties, for example venture capital investors. ii) Using open source software.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The appealing qualities of capital efficiency and high scale up are actually inherent to eCommerce companies. Outsourcing, for example, is a common thread among many eCommerce companies and supports capital efficiency by enabling dedicated focus. That marketing, however, is dependent on capital, and that capital means Venture Capital.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. An additional 27% of funds require consensus (20%) or unanimous vote less one (7%).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

.” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. You name it.” ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper.

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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. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Apple owned 0%.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

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. 3) Open source your real estate. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Ok, I think I’ve said enough.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. A number of open source projects will become a DAOs (decentralized autonomous organization) instead of pursuing the classic venture backed model. We added 3 team members: Ellen Chisa , Founder-in-Residence and former co-founder of Dark.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

 You probably have operating budgets for each department. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged balanced scorecard , executive compensation , startup , venture capital. Bookmark the permalink.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A business plan is a document that outlines the financial and operational goals of your business. A business plan a vital part of any new venture. This section gives a brief overview of the industry sector your business will operate in. Operating plan. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On the horizon there are offerings like exclusive tech and bank partnerships for educating borrowers on the credit health of their business and reducing cost of capital for SMBs, additional funding products for addressing the entire credit-risk spectrum for small businesses, and an enhanced digital-user experience. Ripple Labs.

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, —– Indie.vc

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

It is totally open source and varies in its use dependent on many things including the geography in which it is used. This code is very lucrative when you understand its depth as it pertains to equities, venture capital, property and other income streams. A language which then becomes our own personal operating system.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Building collaboration tools is the next logical step after they've already built the only free open source depository of legal documents --similar to how Github isn't just a place to store your code, but to work on it with others. Imagine what open source could do to the law. This is how software used to get developed.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 1, 2010

The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community. The drafters also anticipate a management rights letter will be included in order to ensure “Venture Capital Operating Company&# compliance for the VC investor(s). (3)

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice.

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Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

Growthink Blog

MAY 27, 2015

A key distinction when it comes to BI tools and approaches is whether they are agnostic / open-source or closed / focused on a specific business process / industry application. less riddled with bugs), probably less expensive, and more naturally business intuitive than the current crop. The Best BI is P rescriptive AND P redictive.

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Open Source Analytics Forecast Technology 48

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 1, 2010

The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community. The drafters also anticipate a management rights letter will be included in order to ensure “Venture Capital Operating Company&# compliance for the VC investor(s). (3)

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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. This is another misconception.

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

It helps websites take active actions against competitors who operate bots to copy and replicate their content, or for competitive B.I. 3i-MIND is the pioneer in a new category of technology that leverages data, operational know-how and human intuition to dramatically advance the value of intelligence and insights. 4) 3i-MIND.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

There is no better imagery of what it is like to compete in modern business than this famous opening paragraph from Charles Dickens' The Tale of Two Cities. Most of us, however, in so many aspects of our strategies and tactics dance daily on this “Go/No Go” Edge of the Business Knife.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2009

  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.    Occam's Razor also applies to how an entrepreneur should operate his business. 

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IPO Valuation Open Source Sales 68

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation.

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Image source ). It’s one that many venture capital–funded startups deploy. Musk, by making his fast chargers available to others and open-sourcing Tesla’s patents , has intentionally filled a potential moat. The network effect is a powerful moat. The primary goal is user acquisition.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. I tried to consolidate my thoughts as well as other perspectives from leading venture capital funds.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Branding provides a reassuring level of professionalism that very small operations may struggle to establish. To create a smart and effective fee structure, you have to start by knowing how much it costs you to run your business (your operating costs). But, your operating costs are only a starting point.

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Small Business Administration Small Business Social Media Elevator Pitch 86

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is applicable to other subscription businesses such as Open Source.) The best board books I've seen track nearly 20-30 key metrics (some financial, some operating) from meeting to meeting and those metrics are usually covered in the first 20-30 minutes of the meeting, setting the stage for more strategic discussion.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Billion in VC funding.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Redis Labs – Enterprise-grade open source NoSQL database (Raised $27M). Capriza – Mobile-enable critical business workflows without the need to access source code, APIs, or integration (Raised $51M). Stratoscale – Distributed Operating System for data centres (Raised $70M).

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Software Review Analytics eCommerce 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

Some focus on the core model level, developing large language models or diffusion technology for image and video creation, and others operate in the application layer, powering their generative AI experiences by combining one or a number of APIs that are either open source or commercially available.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 78

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

And when I wasn’t reading, I was also teaching operations which gave me a pretty good understanding of what we were looking for on the other side. But when the targets lit up, the music and chatter would stop, and the communications would get very professional.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

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.

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