Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. I support her assertion that a business model consists of at least the first seven of the following ten basic elements: Value proposition.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Instead of measuring success in dollars of profit, …firms focus on measuring capital efficiency. These innovations do not require change in a company’s existing business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. I support her assertion that a business model consists of at least the first seven of the following ten basic elements: Value proposition.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

But next the question is, ‘What happens to my business?”. The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? What does your new business model look like? Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate. ” exercise.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Reply Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love « Man in the net :: Ontology :: Semantic :: Knowledge , on December 30, 2009 at 1:13 am Said: [.] Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.] Good Enough Decision Making [.]

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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. Lessons Learned.

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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. If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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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. Founder Earnings = Net Income + any amount of founders’ salaries over a certain threshold. Should You Raise Equity Venture Capital or Revenue-Based Investing VC?

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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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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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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. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 business model is broken. business model that drives job growth in emerging growth companies is IPOs. .” In the 1990s the U.S. million a year.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Private investors could also be angel investors who form a small group of high net worth individuals, focused on investing in local businesses and offering services to help build your business up and see it succeed. Venture Capital. The right choice is different for every business.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Individual Investors, NOT Venture Capitalists, are Leading the Charge. So-called “super angels” – wealthy, technology-savvy high net worth individual investors - and NOT traditional venture capitalists, are now the preferred funding source for the most dynamic entrepreneurs in the hottest technology sectors. Here’s why: 1.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

6) Have you built yourself a financial model that includes both the profitability of an individual user, including the cost to acquire or sell them, as well as an overall growth number with a marketing budget over the longer term? 8) Have you made significant changes to the product or business model that improved key metrics over time?

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

In an effort to make my life easier, I’ve summarized here the steps that will make it much easier for people to read, understand, and hopefully invest in your business. To help me, I interviewed the two most knowledgeable people I know about financial modeling. 17) Include a sensitivity analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. Unfortunately Tracy would learn first hand not much later that the business model has two components: both buying and selling. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

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. In it we explicitly state: “The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models….What

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Launched and officially incorporated my new initiative called G220 Ventures with the aim of helping (a) students prepare for a career in Venture Capital and (b) entrepreneurs with fundraising and strategic partnerships to scale their innovation bring it to market. #12- Officially Incorporated and more.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Creating a scalable business model. Whether you are hoping to expand a small business with a loan or going for a round of venture capital, you will need a scalable business model.

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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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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

Undertaking a formal and comprehensive study of a business’ industry, market, and competition usually leads to one of two results - either the target market is much smaller and less lucrative than surmised or… …it is defined so imprecisely and broadly as to uncover faulty strategic thinking / an unsound business model.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 22, 2012

com,net,org,int,gov,mil and.edu) were established in the 1980s, prior to the Internet moving into the general public domain.int is reserved for international organizations, and.gov,mil and.edu are restricted to U.S. The startup has raised $100 million in venture capital money, according to EVP and co-founder Jon Nevett.

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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

The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net. Networks are both safety nets and trampolines. What business schools can provide is an opportunity to learn a set of skills that can be helpful on the entrepreneurial journey. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net. Networks are both safety nets and trampolines. What business schools can provide is an opportunity to learn a set of skills that can be helpful on the entrepreneurial journey. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

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. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 8, 2010

  The premise is that having sufficient net worth makes the investor more sophisticated.  And the National Venture Capital Association and the Angel Capital Association have both weighed in.    The premise is that having sufficient net worth makes the investor more sophisticated. 

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Undertaking a formal and comprehensive study of a business’ industry, market, and competition usually leads to one of two results - either the target market is much smaller and less lucrative than surmised or… …it is defined so imprecisely and broadly as to uncover faulty strategic thinking / an unsound business model.

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Conversion Ratio Business Model Retention Revenue 48

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. What Are These Intermediaries? The main ones include: Fund of Funds (FoFs).

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. There’s a world of difference between PR success and actual business success. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

The percentage rake is the amount that the marketplace charges as a percentage of GMS (gross merchandise sales), which typically represents net revenues for the marketplace. This is one of my favorite marketplace business model “tweaks.” Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. against GMS of approximately $68.6B

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