Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. Strive to make real customers your best advocates for the initial rollout.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In many cases, digital marketing offers a return on investment (ROI) of many times your initial capital, meaning $1,000 per month in spending could turn into $3,000 per month in revenue. Rely on Open Source Software. Before committing to any software purchase, see if there’s an open source alternative that fits the bill.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Open Source, For-Profit Startups – “FairSoftware is the place to start and grow your online business. We help you team with others, track revenue and share it openly and fairly. A good weekly listen. Hire people in return for a share of your income stream instead of upfront cash.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Of course, this can build your capacity for new work, which will certainly grow your revenue. For example, you can use a public Go proxy , which is a centralized repository that hosts open-sourced Go modules. This way, you can bring new ideas to your startup and increase your workforce’s skillset.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The use of open-source software in the company. In particular, pay close attention to the revenues from these customers. Other Things to look into include: Intellectual property rights of the company. Any involvement ion intellectual property litigation. The technology in-license of the company. Material Contracts. Look at it.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

When I reflect on all of this, it seems painfully obvious to me (and maybe to you also) that the best way to popularize “data as a service&# is to start with an API (which creates the revenue model dynamic) and build a bunch of open source examples on top of it. Tags: Open Source data simplegeo.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Many providers are open to negotiation, especially for long-term contracts or bulk subscriptions. Utilise Free Alternatives: Investigate if there are free or open-source software alternatives that can replace some of your paid subscriptions without compromising quality.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2021

9:57] Is there an element of Dudas platform that has some of that extendability similarly to how WordPress is open source and allows people to develop around it? [11:33] And when it comes to growing your business — you can get matched with new leads every day, and earn revenue share for every website you create.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2017

Great blog post by CockroachDB on open source business models and their plans to make money: If you’re serious about building a company around open source software, you must walk a narrow path: introduce paid features too soon, and risk curtailing adoption. The post Developer love vs revenue appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

Customer Service Provides More Revenue. Offering service and support to your customers is simple to do, and what’s more, it provides opportunities for more revenue for you. Their SIP trunks must work across all primary IP Gateways, IP PBX, and even open-source PBX projects that a client may be using. Compatibility.

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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.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Today it’s dominated by capital efficient software, web and mobile startups whereas 10 years ago it was dominated by semiconductor and hardware startups that consumed huge amounts of capital before their first dollar in revenue. The Bend Experience.

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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. .

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. It took us longer to get into revenue, but the freemium was a real accelerator for us. A year in, we had great usage and no revenue. in just 30 months.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. The go-to-market strategy was to start free and open source and grow from there. Everything about it was built through that lens.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

We're thinking of going open-source — it's free. You: Open-source is free like puppies are free. See, we don't line our pockets with that revenue, we spend it making you maximally effective. We do things open-source would never do. I know, "most expensive" doesn't automatically imply "best!"

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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

According to Gartner’s “AI hype cycle”, generative AI is at the peak of inflated expectations ( source ). But with Stable Diffusion, which offers an open source generative AI API already, we’re starting to see developers training the generative AI algorithms to perform specific tasks.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s description of the intersection of Customer Development, Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Agile Development is the way startups quickly iterate their product as they learn.

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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. Kamal Brar is Vice President & GM for Asia Pacific/Middle East at Hortonworks.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

There is the free Open Source edition built by the community. Retargeting Facebook to increase revenue. Magento offers a good architectural framework for optimization and scaling, as well as a predictable architecture that makes the work of the IT team transparent to the business. The Magento project is owned by eBay.

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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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

The convenience of online shoe shopping is a game-changer — to the tune of billions of dollars of revenue — but how could they make up the costs ? In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Revenue from one startup can be “invested” in another, and assets like buildings and computers can be shared. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations. Attract and share specialized talent and skills.

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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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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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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. 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. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. When they can invest the marginal engineering hour in listing a new token that drives revenue vs. saving some costs on settlement, it’s hard to justify. The app could then take a small % of all revenue from “paid” messages. 6) Identity Issuance .

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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. Tesla also has its open-source patents, which means they're available for anybody to work with. 12- Apple & Steve Jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market. Unprecedented revenue growth + companies staying private longer =. 2007 was the watershed year. More opportunities than ever in history for venture capital firms =.

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Altgate

JANUARY 21, 2010

Open source is the wrong term though; instead is probably better to say automate since LegalZoom and others are doing the same thing but commercially. Open source is the wrong term though; instead is probably better to say automate since LegalZoom and others are doing the same thing but commercially.

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