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. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. Open microphone: encouraging participation. The goal here is to grow the sources of new ideas and gather fresh thinking to create a new product or service. Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others.

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Framework Leadership Social Media Software Review 397

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. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2017

In 2016, the Open Source Drives Digital Innovation study commissioned by Red-Hat and conducted by analyst house Forrester revealed that 52% of CIOs and senior IT decision makers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are already tapping open source software in areas such as cloud, mobility, big data and DevOps.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

The integration of technology into various aspects of business operations has become essential for organizations to remain competitive, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and drive innovation. Both frameworks offer numerous advantages, but their approaches and ecosystem differ.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

And they figure out how they could digitally enable their business – supply chain, customer interactions, etc. They explore and analyze data using machine learning platforms to create models about customers, processes, risks, or whatever they’re trying to predict. Making business smarter : Customer Support. What’s Different?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I suggest looking for painful problems to solve, rather than “easier to use” or “nice to have” solutions, for customers with money. Customers line up to believe and buy from people who are viewed as leaders or experts relative to a specific solution. Collaborate with customers to tune your solution.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Customer Development is a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model. How you execute Customer Development varies, depending on your type of business. Ash Maurya , the CEO of WiredReach, has extended my work by building a model of Customer Development for Web Startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

From Open Source LLMs, to new APIs, both startups and tech giants continue to push the envelope on what is possible to automate and improve using generative AI technologies. There’s a reason why OpenAI offers to cover the legal fees of business customers sued for copyright infringemen t. But they are still in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. Open microphone: encouraging participation. The goal here is to grow the sources of new ideas and gather fresh thinking to create a new product or service. Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars. You find that you need to be near major customers, or employee transportation hubs, where rents are higher than you ever anticipated. Ramp-up facilities and utilities required.

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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? The interesting point was served up by Michael Dubno, CTO of Goldman Sachs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Even when the customer has money to burn, they would rather get more for the same price. Solutions in the open source world similar to what we accomplished are ‘PhoneGap’ or ‘Cordova.’ Use open-source libraries and pre-made code snippets. There isn’t a single software project where price doesn’t matter.

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Mobile Developer Open Source Software Engineering 147

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Teams talk to 10-15 customers a week and make a minimum of 100 customer visits.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The use of open-source software in the company. Don’t forget to review the customer as well as supplier contracts. Customers and Sales. It’s also important to understand the target company’s customer base. This should include the concentration of its customers and the sales pipeline. Material Contracts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Nils is an open-source aficionado. The customer is Google’s user and how they prioritize user experience. Nils is an open-source aficionado. The customer is Google’s user and how they prioritize user experience. He is also a Docker Captain. Are there a few culprits that typically slow sites down?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Node JS is an open source, cross-stage JavaScript run-time application which is utilized for the improvement of both Server side and customer side applications. open source and complimentary, it also offers extraordinary flexibility and readiness which allows repetition of codes. Not only is Node.js

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

But when you cut something that is essential in business — it is problematic; digital marketing is the best way for a startup to increase brand awareness and attract new paying customers. Rely on Open Source Software. Before committing to any software purchase, see if there’s an open source alternative that fits the bill.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Investors can also be skittish, and winning new customers is not easy. Or you could use open-source software to develop your product, which is often free or low-cost. It helps you to understand your customers better. But don’t give up! It is true that founding a startup in times of crisis may look more challenging.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

To complete the transition into digital, every business needs to find ways to leverage data to improve the business and boost customer engagement. This allows businesses to leverage new technologies and use popular open source tools with mainframe-oriented languages and automation services.

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Marketing Open Source eCommerce Technical Review 98

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2021

Iati is the C o-founder and CEO of Duda – a website development platform used by thousands of agencies around the world to build sites for their customers. 9:57] Is there an element of Dudas platform that has some of that extendability similarly to how WordPress is open source and allows people to develop around it? [11:33]

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

When OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Inflection made their LLMs closed, Mistral positioned itself as an open source LLM that can run on the end device (requiring less expensive hardware) and more easily trained smaller, dedicated models. A good example of this is in the world of generative AI is Mistral.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Negotiate with Providers: Contact your software providers and explore the possibility of negotiating better pricing or customized packages that suit your specific requirements. Many providers are open to negotiation, especially for long-term contracts or bulk subscriptions. Automation reduces labor costs and minimizes errors.

Software Review 138

Software Review Technical Review Retention Cost 138

Up and Running

MAY 22, 2019

Creating your business’ website is an important step whether you plan to sell online or simply point prospective customers toward your brick and mortar location. It’s a platform—one that’s entirely under your own control—for helping customers to discover both your brand promise and what you offer. What puts a CMS website at risk?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One large advantage of WooCommerce is that it is an open-source platform, so there are hundreds of thousands of web teams who specialize in this technology. One potential drawback of Shopify is that the code is proprietary so you are limited to the customization options offered by Shopify and their support services.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

110 researchers and clinicians, and Principal Investigators got out of the lab and hospital, and talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. clinical utility, customer, quality of data, reimbursement, what parts of the product are valuable, roles of CRO’s , and partners, etc.,)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. Open microphone: encouraging participation. The goal here is to grow the sources of new ideas and gather fresh thinking to create a new product or service. Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others.

Social Media 257

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The name is quite synonymous with the big data and is an open source application. Even it will allow the programmers to plug in over their custom mappers. It is an open-source data analytics cluster computer framework. It will result in the smooth functioning of the organization without facing any kind of issues.

SQL 127

SQL Software Review Open Source Distribution 127

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. But the big payoff came when their discussions with medical device customers revealed an entirely new way to think about pricing —potentially tripling their revenue. The class has talked to ~2,200 customers to date.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2011

Do you work predominantly with proprietary or open source software? One of the main benefits of open source software is being able to pick up where others left off. Web companies that outsource their projects tend to subscribe to the one size fits all approach, and you are unlikely to get the custom solution you desire.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2015

Your website may be your most effective tool to engage prospects and convert them to customers. An effective website, however, has to be tailored to the needs of your customer and your industry. How do customers use your website? To implement a plan for web design, you need to know how customers are using your website.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

Product development involves the creation or modification of a product, satisfying a market niche or newly defined customer. Choose from a broad range of 3D modeling software available, including a free open source software or an industrial-grade software (need to pay the license).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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