VC Cafe
MARCH 1, 2024
Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. There doesn’t exist a web search API that has access to page content, parsed outlinks from the page, or even edit history.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. Develop a product line and add alternate channels.
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VC Cafe
MAY 4, 2021
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. Like in the early days of Web 2.0, Open Source. Mumble – the first wide spread free and open source software for VoIP. The platforms.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2014
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.) This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced.
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?
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.
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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