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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. Spatial computing – with the launches of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 a new personal computing platform may evolve over the next decade.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community. Slack is looking to build the B2B version of Clubhouse (Slack Virtual Hallways). Open Source. Clubhouse attracts competition from every direction.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

In this era of “open source” everything, open conversations on blogs make a lot of sense. On a separate note, Cliff, should I add your blog.allen.com to the B2B Marketing Zone ? For meetings aimed at helping salespeople network, I like B2B Power Exchange ( www.b2bpowerexchange.com ). That's great to hear.

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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

Use Open Source and Cloud Computing. Sourceforge.net has an index of open source options. For most things you need to do, you can find an open source and/or cloud version of it. Chris Hoyt of L angua Travel has used this method to great effect with his business, using trade for B2B compensation.

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Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

How to Use Social Media to Drive Traffic for B2B Companies – crowdspring.co/1nPz9An. 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications | Datamation – crowdspring.co/1yevQN7. How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle | by Steve Blank – crowdspring.co/1wkTR3b. 1s3Gfsi.

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Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Crusaders

View from Seed

He also famously championed a philosophy of not having salespeople , and though that ultimately wasn’t the case Butterfield and others did spread a commercial model centered more on bottoms-up adoption and customer success teams than traditional outbound sales which is now being replicated across many B2B software businesses.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

Austin Startup

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 On the one hand, Austin VCs prefer working with predictable B2B companies and get a little scared when they hear the word “consumer”. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.