Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

Open Source 62

Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Review Your Software Subscriptions “Reviewing your software subscriptions can be a quick way to reduce costs. Remove any redundant software that adds to your costs without providing tangible benefits. Look for discounts and group rates to reduce costs. ” — Carl Jenson, Founder of Compare Bank.

Software Review 138

Software Review Technical Review Retention Cost 138

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Be sure to hire and cultivate new talent with the right mindset. Capitalize on free communal initiatives around you.

Technical Review 252

Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Metrics 252

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

Accredited Investor 324

Accredited Investor Entrepreneur SEC Equity 324

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This reduces the cost of customer acquisition, allows easy upgrades for service and new features, and improves customer loyalty in the face of new competitors in the market. Take advantage of low-cost modern tools and automation. Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Facilitate rapid growth through contracted resources.

Merger 386

Merger Software Review Acquisition Social Media 386

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

Source: Pexels. From your team’s familiarity with the language, to development costs and available resources, there are many factors to consider when choosing a programming language. Open Source Code. According to a report done by Github, the three most popular open source languages among the website’s 5.8

Programming 89

Programming Ruby Java Open Source 89

Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But if you start with realistic expectations for how much it may cost to launch a successful eCommerce store, you’ll be far more likely to succeed. So, before starting an eCommerce business , follow these tips to better plan out your site and accurately budget your startup costs. Planning for long-term costs.

eCommerce 149

eCommerce Development Team Review Hosting Security 149

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. With the latest advances in software technology, it’s no longer cost-prohibitive for business entrepreneurs, who can’t yet afford a human resources department, to take advantage of analytics tools.

Analytics 245

Analytics Metrics Employee Open Source 245

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs.

Startup 198

Startup Technical Review Ghana Guerilla 198

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Oftentimes, new startups are inclined to cut costs that seem superfluous or unnecessary for the core business model to function. Knowing your costs and what that cost expendure will do for you — is the best ways to save money without compromising the integrity or long-term growth potential of your business.

Startup 106

Startup Software Review Open Source Technical Review 106

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 26, 2004

It seems that SCO is making another attempt to hurt the open source movement by claiming that the GPL is unconstitutional and violates federal patent and copyright laws. Isn’t this the antithesis of what open source stands for? What Michael wants is integration from a legal perspective, not a feature perspective.

Open Source 60

Open Source Software Review Software CTO Hire 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2014

Rather than focusing on technology as a cost centre, businesses should regard it as an innovation centre. If an IT investment does not increase productivity, drive sales, makes a company more efficient, reduce costs or opens up bigger markets, then it is incurring costs that are actually reducing profits.

Technical Review 277

Technical Review Small Business Technology Software Review 277

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

Here are the benefits of urethane casting: Eliminates Hard Tooling Costs : Cast urethanes allow the production of parts in each quarter and make quick necessary easy design changes. Due to the fast silicone mold production, cast urethanes have very low overhead tooling costs, and parts can be produced and delivered faster.

Product Development 99

Product Development Developer Product Technical Review 99

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 25, 2019

For your new business venture to be successful, you need to focus on minimizing startup costs as much as possible. Stores such as Aaron Rents & Sells chain, websites like Quickr and OLX, and auctions are good sources to find used equipment. To keep your overhead costs low, try working from home or using remotely located offices.

Cost 102

Cost Open Source Startup Software 102

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details. Customer Segments change over time. Lessons Learned.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 281

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

What’s more, cyber attacks are estimated to cost small businesses between $84,000 and $148,000, and 60% go out of business within six months of an attack. To avoid unnecessary disputes and the costs associated with them, implement a carefully drafted BYOD policy with your employees. Get clear on policies.

Software Review 157

Software Review Software Developers Software Development Security 157

VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

While web search requires huge resources, I believe that smaller LLMs and open source technology will play a big role in creating specialised vertical search engines for topics like health, legal tech, travel, education, etc and there lies the opportunity for startups.

Generative AI 175

Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 175

YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

You may be able to save on shipping costs, as well. For example, you can replace water coolers with a filtered water pitcher to save on cost. This is one of the best cost-saving ideas for small businesses. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business.

Software Review 191

Software Review Entrepreneur Cost Cofounder 191

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

Technical Cofounder 153

Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property Wiki Cofounder 153

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

This allows businesses to leverage new technologies and use popular open source tools with mainframe-oriented languages and automation services. Despite its age, the mainframe has proven a reliable platform, able to keep up with other, newer systems while keeping costs low and minimizing risk.

Marketing 98

Marketing Open Source eCommerce Technical Review 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

Patents are counter to open source initiatives and free software. The free and growing open source software community, which covers most mobile and web apps, oppose software patents as impeding or prohibiting the distribution of free software. Rather than protection, this can be seen as a tax on innovation.

Software Review 120

Software Review Intellectual Property Software Technical Review 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2018

It’s free and open source. Lionsforge’s Craftlaser launched on Indiegogo in June 2018, you can visit the campaign at: [link]. Recommended Resources: Inkscape. Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Thingiverse. Thingiverse is a multiple resource platform.

Small Business 187

Small Business Singapore Cost Open Source 187

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. With the latest advances in software technology, it’s no longer cost-prohibitive for business entrepreneurs, who can’t yet afford a human resources department, to take advantage of analytics tools.

Management 134

Management Analytics Open Source Hiring 134

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. 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.

Cost 255

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

When used correctly, tech can streamline operations, make work easier for your team, increase output, reduce costs, promote the business, keep customers happy and much more. Find Ways To Keep Tech Costs Down. A few of the best ways to keep your business tech costs down include: Leasing instead of buying. Open-source software.

Reputation 151

Reputation Green Operations PPC 151

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

You probably don’t have a big portion of your income that you can tuck away as savings, and you welcome opportunities to make your operations more cost-effective. Use Open Source and Cloud Computing. Sourceforge.net has an index of open source options. Really evaluate the cost and benefits to the company.

South Africa 157

South Africa Software Review Green Technical Review 157

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

That said, nothing is cost-free. More complex cost of capital calculation. This causes the cost of capital for Flexible VC, often calculated through IRR (similar to an interest rate), can be higher than that of venture debt or traditional RBI. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As people realized streamlining client-side development really matters to cost-effectively build software, new tool sets emerged to streamline the process. Also note that AJAX finally took off when Google open-sourced a bunch of its internally built AJAX frameworks. The costs of multi-platform development are too expensive.

Web 355

Web AJAX Distribution HTML 355

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

Intellectual Property 242

Intellectual Property Open Source Bandwidth IP 242

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

In a recent blog post , he argues that it’s not just costs that are at historic lows. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” Now storage is cheap, costing $0.05 ” And as impact goes, so does cost.

Engineer 60

Engineer Database Open Source Acquisition 60

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2022

DeepPavlov.ai, is the team behind the open-source Conversational AI stack designed to enable faster and easier chatbots and AI-assistants’ development. Another approach is bringing the power of open-source ConvAI solutions. DeepPavlov’s team, as an academia-born project, aims to enhance open-source usage.

Conversion 171

Conversion Open Source Startup Framework 171

YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2018

There has been a lot of speculation around cryptocurrencies and this has in many ways obscured the fact the blockchain, the open-source and decentralized ledger that drives these digital currencies has the potential of radically transforming how ownership is verified.

Sierra Leone 153

Sierra Leone Technical Review IP Database 153

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2017

Contributing to these trends are less expensive and more powerful hardware, and open source end-to-end connected data platforms that maximize the value of data-in-motion and securely store, manage and perform complex processing of data-at-rest. This now makes it possible for businesses to hone in on new business opportunities.

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Asia Singapore Technical Review 150

YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

They cost money. For sure if they remove everything there and rent the space, the renting revenues will pay for a big slice of monthly cloud cost. How can they still use its machines and spend millions of dollars buying more and more storage every 6 months? For me it’s a waste of time. I’ll explain why. Physical space.

Cloud 124

Cloud Software Developers Software Development Hosting 124

VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2023

AI Snapshots by Google Search Open Source vs. Closed LLMs Google and OpenAI are the two leading players in the LLM space. Open-source LLMs, such as Meta’s LLaMa, MosaicML , Vicuna -13B (an open-source alternative to GPT-4 which reportedly achieves 90% of ChatGPT’s quality) or RedPajama (which released a 1.2

Artificial Inteligence 179

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Open Source 179

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. What else do we know?

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165