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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

But the ICC, the nonprofit organization that develops the model code used or adopted for building regulations by all 50 states, claims UpCodes impacts its ability to make revenue and continue authoring new code. And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.”

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

Between 2000 and 2002, Industry Canada reported that roughly a quarter of the venture funding for Canadian startups came from the United States, while the converse was not true – Canadian venture capitalists maybe accounted for 1% of venture investments into U.S. Because the U.S. This trend of foreign startups seeking earlier and earlier U.S.

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The Innovator's Solution for SaaS Startups - The Flywheel SaaS Company

Tomasz Tunguz

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. The pyramid above describes the Traditional Model.

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