Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s description of the intersection of Customer Development, Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Agile Development is the way startups quickly iterate their product as they learn.

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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. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. trillion by 2030.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

This meant that small teams could create games and make real revenue whereas on the Web this was much harder because you either had to build (or license) your own billing infrastructure, convince consumers to get out their credit cards (which they don’t like to do) or you had to sell enough advertising to make it worth offering your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

The next major entrant is the Android platform, an open source mobile operating system that has led to the introduction of several handsets that are based on this OS and many more to be released over time. it provides complete transparency in how much advertisers are paying, how much Burstly takes and what your revenue is.

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Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Except they won’t be called Product Managers. That crazy chicken.

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

The convenience of online shoe shopping is a game-changer — to the tune of billions of dollars of revenue — but how could they make up the costs ? In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source.

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Intellectual Property Open Source Bandwidth IP 242

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a result, we’ve seen both the rise of open-source networks leading to startups (a la Gitlab and Hashicorp, among others), as well as Docusign- and Slack-inspired freemium models designed to grow within groups at companies. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important. Revenue acceleration is, too.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Open Source Software Review Venture Capital 127

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market. Unprecedented revenue growth + companies staying private longer =. 2007 was the watershed year. More opportunities than ever in history for venture capital firms =.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Of course, this can build your capacity for new work, which will certainly grow your revenue. For example, you can use a public Go proxy , which is a centralized repository that hosts open-sourced Go modules. This way, you can bring new ideas to your startup and increase your workforce’s skillset.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. Revenue must come from a primary source (as opposed to advertising or other third party sources). You don’t need to buy hardware – there’s Amazon AWS. Team must be purely technical.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

So then, why are we teaching our students to trust fall without any revenues of their own to catch them? No revenues, no costs. You can tell me all you want about how many patents were filed at Columbia or wherever, or what they do in revenues—the future of the innovation in NYC is not in hard technology.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As Flickr did for the social web and consumption models, Github uses an open, social design for all sorts collaborative models, like Docracy 's open source contact negotiation tools, GrabCAD for mechanical engineers, or K nowable for physical DIY projects.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Open Source, For-Profit Startups – “FairSoftware is the place to start and grow your online business. We help you team with others, track revenue and share it openly and fairly. A good weekly listen. Hire people in return for a share of your income stream instead of upfront cash.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The use of open-source software in the company. In particular, pay close attention to the revenues from these customers. Other Things to look into include: Intellectual property rights of the company. Any involvement ion intellectual property litigation. The technology in-license of the company. Material Contracts. Look at it.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Merger 120

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. Kamal Brar is Vice President & GM for Asia Pacific/Middle East at Hortonworks.

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Artificial Inteligence Asia Singapore Technical Review 150

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, if the Apple Watch becomes a device eligible for reimbursement , there’s a huge revenue upside for Apple. Apple has attempted to get medical researchers to create new health apps by developing ResearchKit , an open source framework for researchers. Today consumers pay directly for the Watch. What’s Not Working?

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China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In many cases, digital marketing offers a return on investment (ROI) of many times your initial capital, meaning $1,000 per month in spending could turn into $3,000 per month in revenue. 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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Startup Software Review Open Source Technical Review 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” The term ‘Centaur’, coined by venture capital firm Bessemer, indicates companies that achieved $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

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Software Review Israel B2C Open Source 109

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . Numbers are numbers, after all.

Startup 180

Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. There is so much confusion and misinformation out there about the government sponsored “payroll protection plan” loans to companies that the heads of every small business CEO in the country must be spinning.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2021

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] And when it comes to growing your business — you can get matched with new leads every day, and earn revenue share for every website you create.

Web 98

Web Design Curation Software Review 98

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. This analysis on Facebook open sourcing data center/hardware seems to miss the point – [link]. The 5 Dangerous Realities of Social Media for Business – [link]. 10 Tips To Improve Email Marketing – [link]. In France, the decline was – 4% [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Way to go Maor Sason and team Appcharge on your $26M series A to help gaming companies keep more of their in-app-purchases revenue! It grew revenues by 6400% from $1M in November 2023 to to $65M today in just one year. Today is ‘Black Friday’ – what bargains are you shopping for?

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Israel Lebanon Technical Review ChatGPT 78

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. Ultimately what you want is sales leverage where every $1 you spend on sales and marketing equals multiples of that in terms of revenue.

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Sales Java Open Source Software Review 78

YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

Customer Service Provides More Revenue. Offering service and support to your customers is simple to do, and what’s more, it provides opportunities for more revenue for you. Their SIP trunks must work across all primary IP Gateways, IP PBX, and even open-source PBX projects that a client may be using. Compatibility.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review IP Internet Audio 147

ConversionXL

JULY 24, 2014

Improve Customer Engagement & Increase Revenue. The result was “a 25% increase in response rate beyond that generated by the existing system, which translates into an estimated $1 million of ad revenue every 19 months.”. Use An Open Source Predictive Analytics Product. These platforms include: R. PredictionIO.

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Analytics eCommerce Conversion Technical Review 118

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

When I reflect on all of this, it seems painfully obvious to me (and maybe to you also) that the best way to popularize “data as a service&# is to start with an API (which creates the revenue model dynamic) and build a bunch of open source examples on top of it. Tags: Open Source data simplegeo.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story. Much better.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Database 78

YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

For sure if they remove everything there and rent the space, the renting revenues will pay for a big slice of monthly cloud cost. They don’t need the datacenter to be that close to the offices. The latency doesn’t matter that much. I’m 100% sure. What if they sell it? The other areas don’t.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Kaltura provides the world’s first and only Open Source Online Video Platform. Kaltura - Company Website.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. The Power of the Rule of Three in Marketing Your Small Business – [link]. When did advertising get so small? – [link]. Those Millions On Facebook?

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93