Business Model Early Stage Open Source Seed Stage 
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. Typical business stage.
Hippoland
OCTOBER 16, 2016
In this post, I’m going to very *simplistically* dive into some high level categories and talk about how early stage investors consider each. Open source libraries (such as TensorFlow) make technology more accessible for less skilled or self-taught developers such as myself to use. But, you need to be growing FAST.
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Mucker Lab
APRIL 6, 2023
Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? But for early stage founders, I think there are two particular scenarios where PLG can be really helpful.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 15, 2020
I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. You're selling a consumable product, which is a great business model. Any venture capitalist will tell you, "That's why we take a wide spectrum of that at the seed stage."
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Let’s face it, the rules for getting a startup funded at the seed stage aren’t very clear. Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. TVR: The traditional way of raising seed funding. The New Way , called Traction.
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