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The Survival Matrix
great methodology to track trends and meta info on your startup
business  startup  vc  management 
october 2008 by afroginthevalley
Acquia, my Drupal startup | Dries Buytaert
with the rise of Facebook, Open Social, and friends, I’m not sure there is a future for (social community) websites that don’t provide an API (...) Drupal 7 (will have thedrupal) the ability to create, share and mash up managed content.
drupal  business  type:perspective 
march 2008 by afroginthevalley
Kawasaki: How I wasted $12,107 on Truemors » mathewingram.com/work
But it seems to me he was saying something more — i.e., that he was able to create a business for only $12,107. The only problem is that I don’t see any sign of Truemors being a business (which I guess you could say about lots of other Web 2.0 sites t
business  web2  management  webdev 
june 2007 by afroginthevalley
The Long Tail: Give away the music and sell the show
The major labels are freaked out: CD sales are continuing their inexorable decline and iTunes sales aren't making up the difference. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of artists are giving away their music for free on MySpace, their own websites and independen
digitalmedia  business  economics  longtail  music  distribution  type:perspective 
january 2007 by afroginthevalley
» Hyperic releases its code | Open Source | ZDNet.com
Open source does not just change license terms. It can change everything.
opensource  business  management 
january 2007 by afroginthevalley
Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy
DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights so that they can sell them back to you.
drm  digitalmedia  business  type:analysis 
january 2007 by afroginthevalley
EclipseCon - Tim O'Reilly Keynote
Tim O'Reilly spoke Tuesday morning to an audience of about 900 at EclipseCon about business model patterns in the era of low-cost open source components.
business  web2 
march 2005 by afroginthevalley
Linux Sneaks into the Small Business Marketplace
Our main strategy is to reduce their costs by preventing problems proactively
business  interstructure  opensource 
january 2005 by afroginthevalley

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