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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. New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run.

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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. Your solution must have value for every customer. Strive to make real customers your best advocates for the initial rollout.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? But I don’t buy it.

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Don’t Follow The Buzzwords For Small Business Technology

YoungUpstarts

If an IT investment does not increase productivity, drive sales, makes a company more efficient, reduce costs or opens up bigger markets, then it is incurring costs that are actually reducing profits. Freeware and Open source. There are also many open source tools for various requirements that you can use.

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Merger and Acquisition Due Diligence Checklist

The Startup Magazine

The use of open-source software in the company. Customers and Sales. This should include the concentration of its customers and the sales pipeline. Investigate the terms of sale—especially those relating to exchanges and refunds. Other Things to look into include: Intellectual property rights of the company.