Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Growth entrepreneurs quickly find themselves removed from day-to-day operations, and become more and more occupied by transactions with lawyers, investors, and potential acquisition partners. Personal income is related to operations versus equity. Use flexibility to match your lifestyle.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If your partner is your roommate, you don’t even have to find a space (yet). You don’t have to worry at all about the space, as the operator will manage it. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. Use Free Online Resources.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. And if they’re smart they’ll teach Horizon 1 teams to operate with mission and intent , not just process and procedure.). They operate with speed and urgency to find a repeatable and scalable business model. Lessons Learned.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Find partners or investors. A business plan is a document that outlines the financial and operational goals of your business. This section gives a brief overview of the industry sector your business will operate in. Operating plan. Any suppliers, manufacturing processes, and any other operating details also appear here.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. We added 3 team members: Ellen Chisa , Founder-in-Residence and former co-founder of Dark.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

It was like cancer,” recalls my business partner, who dealt with the situation. “To Changes in the nature of business have affected how hackers operate, said Maman, “Everything is about online today, and almost every [business] is providing some type of online service or app. Use free and open-source software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Feenix Venture Partners has a unique investment model that couples investment capital with payment processing services. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6%

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Here are a few success stories of business angels, investors and managers who dared to invest their time and cash ( source: [link]. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm. Then, how has Kenya built its start-up ecosystem?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A company will decide what operations are best to keep in-house while outsourcing those that it can “afford” to. Before becoming the CEO of Zoara ( ), the premier website for diamonds and jewelry, Tomer was an acting partner at Venture Capital firm Eurofund. Tomer Tzach is a VC turned entrepreneur.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. And if we’re investing in the company, it then impacts how I might be most helpful as a thought partner to the entrepreneur depending on their archetype.

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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

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Apple owned 0%.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. So assessing fit is critical. What should the firm do?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What we do is try to help make sure that the way of working—the operating system, the culture, the organization's design—is well-matched to that challenge. Because right now we mostly operate on a factory model from a hundred years ago, which is all about the linear. So you need to be conscious of the context you're operating in.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Past responsibility for operational and capital budgets in excess of $1M, confidence with budgeting and spend planning.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

It is essential for integration, processing and operating software vendors responsible for these massive volumes of data to get as close to the market as possible, which means complying with key standards such as Hadoop , Spark and Apache BEAM. Not to mention they need to align themselves with the open source communities defining them.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2010

At the same time every computer company was writing its own operating system. Soon standard operating systems (e.g. In the last decade open source software (e.g We got together this weekend (along with our partners Alan Smith and Bob Dorf and my student Max Marmer) to try to integrate the two. x86 , ARM.)

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Tesla Motors announced yesterday it has opened its patent portfolio in hopes of encouraging other companies to create new electric vehicles. In a blog post, CEO Elon Musk said this was done “In the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.” When we all work together we all win.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Ouya is an open source Android-based gaming platform that is looking to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. The custom Android ROM company that has found favor with hackers and hobbyists is looking to become the next mobile operating system. Evolution and innovation continue in 2013, unabated and unafraid. CyanogenMod.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The San Antonio-based company founded OpenStack, the standard open-source operating system for cloud computing. It has also established a training partner program with New Horizons Computer […] The post Rackspace Launches OpenStack Training Programs appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

There was no open source, no code repositories like GitHub, no knowledge hubs like StackExchange. I got to help a telecom operator decide whether or not to bid on 3G spectrum and how much to pay. Not operational. Not an operator. “You should really be an operating partner. ” F**k.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I think the other thing that sort of made me jump pretty early on the testing is we had been setting up this clinical trial with a partner for probably about six months, with a collaborator who had typically been incredibly responsive and would jump on the phone at a moment's notice. We were supposed to have the kickoff meeting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 16:54) Jen discusses making open source tools. (19:16) We're no longer operating at the speed of government.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A business plan is a document that outlines the financial and operational goals of your business. This section gives a brief overview of the industry sector your business will operate in. Operating plan. Any suppliers, manufacturing processes, and any other operating details also appear here. An industry overview.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

Declining activity in wearables (credit:Endeavor Partners). Just as Cupertino partnered with record labels for the iPod and wireless carriers for iPhone, the company has encouraged players across the industry value chain to leverage the power of 700 million iPhone owners. Consider that more than one third of Americans are obese.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

In preparation for the new fund, we have enhanced our enterprise team by adding two new partners through the draft and free agency. With the announcement of our latest fund , our regular season is now approaching.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. For innovation to succeed inside of a large company, you need a parallel set of processes, not to replace the existing ones, but to operate on a fast track.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

A survey from CompTIA indicates that organizations with telecommuting employees enjoy better productivity, lower operational costs, and can even find and retain talented workers at a higher rate. Open source collaboration. Efficiency depends on human co-operation. Lincoln: “Managers are responsible for efficiency.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Incorporate on any other day and you’ll be looking at filling out two business income tax returns for that year (one for the months when you were operating as a sole proprietor, and the second for those months after your incorporation became effective). Media Relations Specialist at Practic. Research Executive at Blueocean Marke.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Incorporate on any other day and you’ll be looking at filling out two business income tax returns for that year (one for the months when you were operating as a sole proprietor, and the second for those months after your incorporation became effective). Media Relations Specialist at Practic. Research Executive at Blueocean Marke.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Is there a similar product that already exists that perhaps you can partner with? (ie. it doesnt exist) and work with them to build something that they would partner with you on.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. SCORE.org A resource partner with the U.S. This feature makes it more likely that you’ll receive prompt and useful responses.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

Open source tech. A new landscape by Greenfield Partners mapped 25 startups (and several unicorns) operating in this space was published by Calcalist in Jan 2023. The Israeli open source startup landscape (credit: Greenfield Partners). The Israeli Generative AI landscape.

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