Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We wrote programs that existed solely on a centralized computer (a mainframe), all of our data was stored centrally and all processing was centralized. In busy times compiling a program could take more than an hour, so we obviously didn’t submit often and if our program had errors and was unable to compile it was devastating.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

For sure if they remove everything there and rent the space, the renting revenues will pay for a big slice of monthly cloud cost. They don’t need the datacenter to be that close to the offices. The latency doesn’t matter that much. I’m 100% sure. What if they sell it? The other areas don’t.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 21, 2012

In my previous blog entry I spoke about ‘leveraging the wood chips’ Which is an old business maxim on how whatever we do has some kind of externality, off cut or by product which can be leveraged (very often sold) in some way to invent a new revenue stream. LPG – LPG is synthesised by refining petroleum or wet natural gas.

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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. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. No revenues, no costs.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 21, 2012

In my previous blog entry I spoke about ‘leveraging the wood chips’ Which is an old business maxim on how whatever we do has some kind of externality, off cut or by product which can be leveraged (very often sold) in some way to invent a new revenue stream. LPG – LPG is synthesised by refining petroleum or wet natural gas.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Businesses that operate online are the most likely to use the freemium revenue model. They must, however, endure advertising and are unable to use the program offline. Thanks to Cody Crawford, Low Offset ! #12- 30- Workiva.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 For starters, it’s worth pointing out that Texas is an oil state.

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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?

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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. Who is this program for and why does it exist? 350 billion of this money is dedicated to small businesses under a loan program called the PPP (payroll protection plan). payroll protection. It depends.

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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. They will owned by the individuals (rather than a company), powered by open source software and backed up by machine learning.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

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. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation.

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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.

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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. IFTTT=If This Then That.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Now, open source and low code tools make it easier for developers and product teams to start experimenting and executing AI/ML into their own products and processes. This would be the result of an increase in revenue from meat and beef in upcoming years in countries like Russia, Germany, Brazil, and the USA. trillion by 2040.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) Amazon PostRank

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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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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.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It's a very well managed company with superbly talented employees with programming skills, and easily understood how to implement all our requirement, quickly and on our budget. View More » Business The 12 Days of Holiday Revenue Maximi. check them out at: www.amt.in I don´t know what to do. Saitek Executive.

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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. You can't tell what the company does.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. “How to Pick the Programming Language for Your First MVP” – [link]. The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link].

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. Now all you have to do is choose a programming language and build a MVP. With this in mind, choose a programming language that makes it easy to start publishing code. A good entrepreneur recognises that speed is key.

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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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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application. Drupal’s weaknesses as a software language tool (push button programming, configuring, too easy, more IT than software dev) are actually its strengths. What is Drupal? When I moved back to L.A. When I moved back to L.A.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. As a very rough rule of thumb here are two guidelines that you might find helpful: LTV > CAC. (It

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Programming Tutorials. Programming Tools. Custom Programming. If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. Your projections should provide a range of best-case/worst-case revenue scenarios over a number of years. Graphic Design Theory.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? 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.

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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.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

OnStartups Created by the same folks who run the popular programming Q&A site StackOverflow , this site is a perfect place to crowdsource all of your small business questions. The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&#

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Reddit - Specifically the programming, business and startup sub-redits. Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Slashdot - Not as vibrant as it once was, but still a large tech community. are full of smart tech people).

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

But in a small company that is funded by its own revenues, it is almost always a mistake to hire for a position before it is absolutely clear that hiring is the right thing to do. Twelve years later, I think there is some wisdom in hiring people who have made significant contributions to an open source community project.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending. Lets see why. Something else? Who’s the customer?

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

It also highlights the vision that Laura Kilcrease and George Kozmetsky had more than 20 years ago to create the first program like this of it’s kind. I could download mp3 music for free from Napster, but most of the software I wanted was not open source yet and had to be purchased. I’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

They called that program Eatsy. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Why Your Startup Should Be Involved in Open Source - ReadWriteStart , September 15, 2010 Oftentimes, when you hear the arguments for "Why open source?",

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Posted by: Peter Cooper | September 10, 2007 7:23 AM It wouldve been nice to hear a mention, or at least suggestion, of the role open source software plays in the development process - even if to say it shouldnt be used. Posted by: Dave | September 10, 2007 7:44 AM Hey Peter.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story. Much better.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Of course, as an open source project when you start mixing all these elements together from different sources, you have possible compatibility issues, you have security issues, you’ve got ease of use, who can you trust, who do you go for support, all that kind of stuff. Effectively you’re trying to create a person.

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