Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Request a small business grant. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local angel investor groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green, or because their goal is to reduce world hunger. Investors will want to understand your business model very well and very early. Target market. Who are you selling to?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Request a small business grant. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local angel investor groups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. A good example is the marketing technology sector. Heck, there was no venture capital in Dixie in that era.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. These resulting business models made them look incredibly profitable. They knew how to execute the current business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Request a small business grant. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local angel investor groups.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. event I did last fall.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made. Individual Investors, NOT Venture Capitalists, are Leading the Charge. But the modern technology world is just not built for this model of investing. Technology Companies. The result?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Most share expertise as well as money.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But in business, you want a lot of partners. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Request a small business grant. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local Angel investor groups.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

These valid observations may be drawn from primary research sources such as the work published by the National Academies, whose most recent report, Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment , was released several months ago. In the 1990s the U.S.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The idea is to utilize and share physicians, staff, office infrastructure, clinical and surgical facilities, resources, call center, technology, vendors, marketing strategies and platforms, and other elements across related verticals with the objectives of generating efficiency, cross-referrals, cost control, and higher margins. #12-

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Request a small business grant. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local Angel investor groups.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. Creating a scalable business model. Determining how much money to ask for.

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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? From the founders’ point of view, the advantages of the RBI model are: Greater control over the company. Focus on lower-risk business models; no requirement for a ‘swing for the fences’ model.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 12, 2012

Jim Gaffman’s new comedy special is available to download for $5 and he says going direct will net him more cash and gives him more creative freedom. Nicholas Lovell and I saw something similar when we talked to publishers about our 50 Questions you should ask before raising venture capital blog series and book.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves. What Are These Intermediaries?

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 17, 2016

The great sprinter Usain Bolt personifies this, sharing the story of how as a teenager in Jamaica he competed barefoot because he could not afford shoes to now where he has parlayed his Olympic success into a net worth of over $60 million. Similarly, in business, only a very few companies become Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, et al.,

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

For a Series A round you want to prove you have built a repeatable and scalable sales/revenue model and understand all parts of the business model. Series B is about proving your net revenue model (can you be profitable?). Team, Product, Traction, Business Model and Market. Business Model.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 11, 2007

According to Gartner, " A Hype Cycle is a graphical representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies." Usually at this point in time, an entrepreneur can maximize short-term value as acquirers will buy more on vision and technology than on business fundamentals.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Every successful technology company raises money throughout its lifecycle, perhaps starting with a seed investment and progressing through Series A, B, C, late-stage investments, and, for the most successful companies, an IPO. These large, high-priced private financings are the defining characteristic of this particular technology cycle.

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www.aaronkharris.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Well, thats what Im figuring out every day.Observations on that, technology in general, and what I encounter along the way will form the substance here. Get your pitch right Remember that the developer you want to hire most likely does not think the way venture capital thinks, or the way that your customers think. startupcto

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. Lee’s posts also appear regularly on View From Seed. Subscribe here for more. What Are These Intermediaries?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. To answer the second question and make sure you are building a profitable business, the key indicator to look at is the Customer LifeTime Value (CLTV).

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

Almost a year in to it and you have great venture capital investment and you guys are growing, do you look back at that conversation in any different way? I don’t think you can start a media company and grow from zero to infinite in the span of time that something like Uber or Google or some breakthrough technology can do.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Not only are the number of new technologies and entrants growing, but also increasing is the rate at which technology is disrupting existing companies. Figure 1 : Five technology revolutions source: Carlota Perez.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 23, 2011

The first decade of the new century witnessed a fundamental change in the nature of the technology entrepreneurship. The dramatic reduction in the cost of starting a technology business combined with readily available risk capital has created a near perfect market for anyone with an idea and some risk tolerance to become an entrepreneur.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

To envision this, visit (or revisit) Kickstarter.com, and browse through the incredible diversity of cause and passion - based projects, from charitable to design to artistic to technological, crowd funded on a donations basis on the site. These businesses - think of the Inc. small and medium-sized companies.

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