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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

From 2010 to today, the number of GitHub users has exploded from 500,000 to 103 million. How to monetize open source There are multiple strategies for earning money from open source. Take PostCSS, a widely popular CSS framework built by Andrey Sitnik. Let’s start with a simple one: crowdfunding and donations.

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Growth hacking is really just growth testing

TechCrunch

Who knew that “growth hacking,” a term coined in 2010 by Sean Ellis, the first marketer at Dropbox, would become so commonplace in 2022? Growth hacking involves using creative strategies with minimal resources to help startups acquire and retain customers. More posts by this contributor. Why growth activation matters.

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Cross River Bank goes from tiny to mighty, with a $3B+ valuation and a crypto-first strategy

TechCrunch

It has been profitable since 2010 — two years after its inception, meaning that it notched a net profit after taxes. Its goal is to offer its partners a regulatory compliant and approved framework to increase their crypto offerings and expand their reach. “We Track record of growth.

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My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey

TechCrunch

Specifically, I hoped to join a company with a very strong engineering and product management culture that needed a CEO with strategy, vision, business development, fundraising and team-building expertise. No choice we make will be perfect, and all the frameworks in the world won’t eliminate risk entirely.

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Daily Crunch: Raise now, pay later: $800M funding round slashes Klarna’s valuation by 85%

TechCrunch

They aren’t really old enough to remember the absolute horror of watching stocks and investments tank during the 2007–2010 economic downturn, but 2022’s environment is giving them a taste of that. Turn your startup’s pricing strategy into a powerful growth lever. billion, Paul writes. Everybody wants you : And by “you,” we mean Gen Z.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. He said, “We estimate that annual RBI market activity has grown 10x in the last decade, from two dozen deals a year in 2010 to upwards of 200 new company fundings completed in 2018.” The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy.

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Project Octane: Hustle & Heart

Entrepreneurs' Organization

ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. Our shared commitment to unapologetically innovate formed the framework for our business. Moranne and I are Millennials, as are most of our staff, so social media, digital strategy and technology is integral to everything we do.

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