The Startup Magazine

JULY 30, 2017

Its secret is a business model that focuses on providing a premium service using open source solutions, 90% cheaper than its competition, according to Eleconomista. The post Reduce need for 3rd party apps with open source solution appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Hector Castillo, Founder and CEO at Noysi.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

Increasing demand on digital features and channels equate to a huge increase in mainframe transaction volumes—so much so, that a recent survey shows that 59% of executives put the mainframe under a positive light as a platform for growth.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. Or you could use open-source software to develop your product, which is often free or low-cost. It helps you to focus on what’s important.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. But working harder is not, in fact, smarter. We're cheaper. It's not bad to be cheaper. Are these assertions unfair? Do you have more false-advantages to add?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Embracing remote work policies not only slashes expenses related to physical office spaces, utilities, and supplies but also opens the doors to a global talent pool, potentially enhancing the diversity and skill set of your team, a considerable boon for startup success in today’s competitive environment.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Users can share UGC / UCC via social media platforms, forums, comments, reviews, and open-source sites like Wikipedia. It is not just a channel to entertain but has become a useful tool for brand-building and an effective avenue for CSR (corporate social responsibility) activities. Social media-fuelled the rise of the UGC.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

This presents a big change for Microsoft , who in a different era would’ve have looked so favorably toward open source — they will sunset internal repository Codeplex in an effort to bring Microsoft tooling to a new cadre of developers. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Drupal’s integration capabilities help the website to serve as a central content management system integrating with other social media channels. Vidhatanand Sharma is an Open Source evangelist and has keen interests in personalized experience on the web. Bottom Line.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin. > 36,000 public channels . > In the world of cryptocurrency, only payment channels like Lightning allow for that level of optimization.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Open metaverse: these are the decentralized platforms built on crypto, such as Manticore Games, Sandbox or Decentraland and many others. Skechers is the latest brand to announce a virtual store opening in Decentraland ( Source ). presents more than just another sales channel for retailers.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 31, 2019

And those could provide extra content, drive traffic to your company’s primary channels, or both. And it puts you in a position to steer that conversation, or even start new conversations that could overflow into other channels. Audacity is an open-source program that is widely used by both first-time showrunners and Top 100 shows.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

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. For more information on greening your spaces, check out Energy Star, a program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Assign content & channels for each experience. Identify your channels. Email & ads are the 2 big communication channels. Messenger will become the biggest channel over the near years. more activity and engagement than any marketing channel, better than email, paid, physical mail. Use data enrichment.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

As founder Haradhan shares : “[WordPress is free and open-source software, and also every WordPress developer already make some functional themes and plugin which things make our some works effortless.”. Image source ). Using tools like Zapier, you can also hack together a variety of integrations that are yet publicly available.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. And since I open source everything I do, you were the recipient of open source.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.) Finally we can use the open-source lean classes from the National Science Foundation I-Corps and the Stanford/Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes to run Horizon 3 projects.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 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. I want a forecast that starts with specifics like channels or traffic and conversions or segments and builds up. A story tells market need way better than general market numbers.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Omni-channel messaging will become even more crucial as more organizations adopt this strategy, especially during a pandemic. Consumers make purchases through a number of channels, ranging from YouTube to Facebook, making it difficult to categorize their behavior. Thanks to David Wurst, Webcitz ! #4- Photo Credit: Mark Valderrama.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Maybe that would make sense as a marketing channel. In this era of “open source” everything, open conversations on blogs make a lot of sense. Lots of online marketing before that, but we had some great results when we were picked up by a national radio program. Hey, radio. What are you working on now?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions users can happen in years versus decades. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

For example, when the need arises to send an urgent, time-sensitive message, instead of drafting an email or creating a chat message, an employee can deliver a single message across channels. As an open-source enthusiast, he developed the open-source Money Manager Ex personal finance software.

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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.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

Open source, permissionless code. Blockchain games channel mod culture and empower third-party developers to customize their own gameplay experiences through plug-ins and third-party clients. Smart contracts and NFTs enable full ownership of in-game assets with the security and transparency backed by blockchain technology.

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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. Publisher Platform (P3).

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

The hottest startups may not have been in enterprise and business-to-business channels (through companies like Parse, StackMob were acquired and Dropbox is growing like gangbusters), but the big business startup market performed well this year. Startups abounded in every sector. SmartThings.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

There are entrepreneurs and innovators I regard very highly, but at times I’m uncertain if their missionary zeal will be channeled effectively towards building an enduring company or if it will be directed more at spreading their worldview. The Crusader. There are a few parallels between the missionary and the crusader.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Go for open source tools. One of the ways of doing that is by using the open source tools for the job. Most of the open source tools are available for free and have a good community support. The open source tools will save you lots of money which can be used in other jobs like marketing.

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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. One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. Publisher Platform (P3). startupcto

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). Of course there are exceptions?—?last

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Many of them are also open source , so you can get a first-hand look at how they work and make modifications to the code, all completely free of charge. Open Source Ecology. Other awesome resources worth looking at: The Expert Village Industrial Design YouTube channel. This channel is part of eHow.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to helping savvy entrepreneurs start and grow new businesses with resources, tips, insight and analysis. The channel is sponsored by TriNet. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 16:54) Jen discusses making open source tools. (19:16) How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. (

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. Leveraged distribution channels.

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