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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer. But I don’t buy it.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com. As a rule, Kayserian says that Kayweb will take no more than 40% of a company in exchange for development work.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

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In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.