Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Closed for You, Open For Us. Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. In the U.S.

Silicon Valley 272

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 272

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Sales and marketing costs. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Closed for You, Open For Us. Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. In the U.S.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 164

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides.

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. First you’ll want to find a lead investor — someone many other investors will recognize and respect. This list of top angel investors is a good start.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

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Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Oh and by the way, typically angel investors don’t sign NDA (non-disclosure agreement), so they are most probably losing out on the cash too. You just a domain name, a web hosting account and online software, which could be free, thanks to open source. Fair enough, don’t tell me instead.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Entrepreneur Netherlands NDA 49

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Amazon Web Services. Social networking. Social/Sharing. High Quality, and open sourced! Web Tools: Hereâ??s Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53