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Open Source Entrepreneurship

72 points by gghootch 14y ago

paulsutter 14y ago
Great list of resources. It would be great if someone ranked the listed tools somehow by references on HN, StackOverflow, etc, linked to posts/comments/questions according to votes. So much great information flows through HN but it's hard to random-access that information easily when making design decisions.
- larrys 14y ago
  A wiki of all the info would also be great.
  - rodolphoarruda 14y ago
    A wiki which ranks pages the same way HN ranks links.
- digitalengineer 14y ago
  Building your own using Evernote is easy. I don't always need all the details. I just need to find it again when I need it.
cateye 14y ago
Trying to sell his books. I don't see any added value in his list.
casca 14y ago
While I offer no judgement here on the merits of Steve Blank's model, the first few chapters of the book that made him famous are here: http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upload/handouts/Four_Steps.pdf http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl...
twelvedigits 14y ago
I'd hardly call a list of links and webpages "open source entrepreneurship." Open source entrepreneurship would be creating a capitalistic enterprise in which anyone can freely participate, and whose participants can modify its practices for his/her own use, with an end goal of monetary profit. Something like: -- a pool of capital from which anyone can borrow for entrepreneurial purposes and pay back with zero or minimal interest. -- an enterprise with a stated function or goal that anyone can join and from which anyone can profit. This is just a collection of links with a sexy header. An interesting question would be: can you open-source entrepreneurship and retain the core principles of both?
- moens 14y ago
  Historically the construct called, "family" has in some cases afforded both. However the open-source aspect is generally lost outside the bounds of said structure.
ubervero 14y ago
The "Legal Wiki" linked in the legal section is sadly dead but Florian Fader re-uploaded most of the documents on Docracy (that also hosts pretty much all the free funding documents available)
- sblank 14y ago
  thx. fixed and updated the tools page with Docracy.

72 points by gghootch 14y ago

Great list of resources. It would be great if someone ranked the listed tools somehow by references on HN, StackOverflow, etc, linked to posts/comments/questions according to votes. So much great information flows through HN but it's hard to random-access that information easily when making design decisions.

larrys 14y ago
A wiki of all the info would also be great.
- rodolphoarruda 14y ago
  A wiki which ranks pages the same way HN ranks links.
digitalengineer 14y ago
Building your own using Evernote is easy. I don't always need all the details. I just need to find it again when I need it.

cateye 14y ago

Trying to sell his books. I don't see any added value in his list.

casca 14y ago

While I offer no judgement here on the merits of Steve Blank's model, the first few chapters of the book that made him famous are here: http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upload/handouts/Four_Steps.pdf http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl...

twelvedigits 14y ago

I'd hardly call a list of links and webpages "open source entrepreneurship." Open source entrepreneurship would be creating a capitalistic enterprise in which anyone can freely participate, and whose participants can modify its practices for his/her own use, with an end goal of monetary profit. Something like: -- a pool of capital from which anyone can borrow for entrepreneurial purposes and pay back with zero or minimal interest. -- an enterprise with a stated function or goal that anyone can join and from which anyone can profit. This is just a collection of links with a sexy header. An interesting question would be: can you open-source entrepreneurship and retain the core principles of both?

moens 14y ago
Historically the construct called, "family" has in some cases afforded both. However the open-source aspect is generally lost outside the bounds of said structure.

ubervero 14y ago

The "Legal Wiki" linked in the legal section is sadly dead but Florian Fader re-uploaded most of the documents on Docracy (that also hosts pretty much all the free funding documents available)

sblank 14y ago
thx. fixed and updated the tools page with Docracy.