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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. For that purpose, she launched Embed , an accelerator program. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Today the National Institutes of Health announced their I-Corps @ NIH program. Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) Lessons Learned.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the Mainframe Market

The Startup Magazine

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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Reduce need for 3rd party apps with open source solution

The Startup Magazine

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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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In all the interviews you've read about founders' success, how many credit their MBA program? 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. How many even have MBAs? We work hard. We're cheaper.

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How Starting a Podcast Can Benefit Small Businesses

Up and Running

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. When it comes to software, you may want one program for recording and one for editing.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

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.). The Bend Experience.