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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. trillion by 2030.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

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. In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. This is an easy mistake to make. Version 7.0

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

For example, in the last year the FDA announced its Pre-Cert pilot program which allows companies making software as a medical device to build products without each new device undergoing the FDA clearance process. However, if the Apple Watch becomes a device eligible for reimbursement , there’s a huge revenue upside for Apple.

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