SiliconHills

AUGUST 28, 2012

Editor’s Note: Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio is a nonprofit research and engineering organization with more than 3,000 employees and revenue of $581 million last year. It’s one of the gems of San Antonio’s technology community. You can read more about the organization here.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Businesses that operate online are the most likely to use the freemium revenue model. It was launched in 2014, and its idea was that sustainability shouldn’t only be limited to wealthy or middle to upper-class communities.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

The convenience of online shoe shopping is a game-changer — to the tune of billions of dollars of revenue — but how could they make up the costs ? In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

There is the free Open Source edition built by the community. Retargeting Facebook to increase revenue. Magento offers a good architectural framework for optimization and scaling, as well as a predictable architecture that makes the work of the IT team transparent to the business. The Magento project is owned by eBay.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

So then, why are we teaching our students to trust fall without any revenues of their own to catch them? They just booked some space at NYU, threw up a fundraising page on Kickstarter, and started talking it up in the community. No revenues, no costs. It’s a recipe for failure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Brian Clark and I have been friends for a really long time and they have certainly set the standard on how to build a business, how to build a brand, how to take care of a community. Transcript of The Key to Success? Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

The play-to-earn model is a simple yet revolutionary concept, and one that is upending the in-game experience for players, developers, and the community. Many of these games build off predecessors to unlock new forms of communities, experiences, and coordination mechanisms at scale. Open source, permissionless code.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As Flickr did for the social web and consumption models, Github uses an open, social design for all sorts collaborative models, like Docracy 's open source contact negotiation tools, GrabCAD for mechanical engineers, or K nowable for physical DIY projects.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. This analysis on Facebook open sourcing data center/hardware seems to miss the point – [link]. 2011 edition) – data on crowdSPRING’s community – [link]. The 5 Dangerous Realities of Social Media for Business – [link]. Who are we?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. I’m seeing a lot of experimentation and development on this front in the Lightning community. When they can invest the marginal engineering hour in listing a new token that drives revenue vs. saving some costs on settlement, it’s hard to justify. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 6, 2019

The risk in this strategy is obvious: if the economy turns, any of these companies might sit on long-term commitments that require more cash to fund than what they can bring in on the revenue side in the short-term. Look no further than crypto. Look no further than crypto.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Climate Issues Will Re-Globalise: We will only become a truly global community when climate catastrophe demands it. Government Will Love Small Again : Governments around the world will finally realise big powerful companies are reducing their tax revenue.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Namely, windfall revenue from oil means that the Texas taxman does not collect personal or corporate income taxes (on the state level). You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Now, open source and low code tools make it easier for developers and product teams to start experimenting and executing AI/ML into their own products and processes. This would be the result of an increase in revenue from meat and beef in upcoming years in countries like Russia, Germany, Brazil, and the USA. trillion by 2040.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. The Power of the Rule of Three in Marketing Your Small Business – [link]. When did advertising get so small? – [link]. Those Millions On Facebook?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 2, 2013

Work for Pie , a startup for helping open-source developers get hired, today announced it will be shutting down on August 31. Nevertheless, the startup tried to break it down into four points: Work for Pie isn’t generating enough revenue to allow us to continue working on it full time. Top Image Credit: Dennis Wilkinson/Flickr.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal is an overly friendly community of helpful people and ample free training and coaching. Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Hang out in tech entrepreneur rich communities. Perhaps the easiest way to find potential technical co-founders is to hang out in both online and offline communities where technical entrepreneurs gather. There are many online tech communities, but here are just a few: Hacker News - Probably a must-engage site.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What’s more, they’re harnessing social apps and digital creative tools to visually enhance the way they communicate, whether it’s a casual note to their friends or a message of activism to their broader online community” JWT Intelligence. Creator Economy vs. the Gig Economy. Trend to watch : free or lower fee creator tools.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. Plus, by the time you’re ready to expand into a paid service, your business should have some revenue trickling in the front door to justify the upgrade. Do you have a business idea keeping you awake at night?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

Open source collaboration. But going “open source” turned out to be just the thing for mining company GoldCorp when it was struggling to make sense of a mining site in Ontario. Paid community service: Why oh why would you pay your employees to go do free work for someone else? Sabbatical leave.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&# More than 1,000 matches have been made to date. STOKED!!!!

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you’re active in the analytics community, you may have noticed a trend in 2016 towards things like R and Python , and it seems that this combination of technical abilities with traditional analyst tasks is becoming increasingly valuable. He also shared an article that outlines an open source chatbot. How do you do that?

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Unfortunately they will be very expensive (30-50% or more of gross revenue). Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). PR/Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Community Resources. Benjamin Kuker May 17, 2011 Tweet I have a feeling I might step on a few toes with this article, but finding a technical cofounder for an online business idea is a topic that I’ve seen come up often across a number of business community websites. Our Newsletters Contact Us. About Virtuosi Media. Our Services.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

But in a small company that is funded by its own revenues, it is almost always a mistake to hire for a position before it is absolutely clear that hiring is the right thing to do. Twelve years later, I think there is some wisdom in hiring people who have made significant contributions to an open source community project.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 18, 2005

I have looked at a number of open source projects over the last year and mostly agree with Bill Burnham’s comments that many of these open source plays are "marketing gimmics for startup companies." In addition, without the ability to create a community, it is hard to build a real sustainable revenue model.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Robert believes in "the powerful idea of self-reliance and this idea that you should know how to take care of yourself, and your family, and your community." That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g.,

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