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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

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.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. New channels, such as adding brick-and-mortar distributors to supplement your online sales, also can multiply your rate of growth.

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

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. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

Software By Rob

Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2). Know Thy Audience – And look at creative funding sources.

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Benefits of Bitcoin

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and published as an open-source code in January 2009. Bitcoin’s most significant and controversial use case is that it is known for its use on the dark web for illegal activities such as money laundering, drug purchases/sales, murder-for-hire assassins stories, etc.

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Don’t Follow The Buzzwords For Small Business Technology

YoungUpstarts

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. Freeware and Open source. There are also many open source tools for various requirements that you can use.