Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Aneace Haddad, CEO & Founder, Taggo. Co-branded cards were invented, combining a Visa, MasterCard or American Express payment brand along with a retailer or airline brand. We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones. Sure, lots of features were added over the years.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Technology Live. Americas new business model: Sharing. Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. It was becoming a business model destined to fail. After our initial shock ended, we decided that we were doing some of the best marketing in the technology channel and wanted to take it to other companies like ours. Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. Page 3: Competition. Page 5: Financials.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. Plantible’s protein is white, odorless, and has a neutral taste.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Image source ). Learn from forced efficiency.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. It turned out that there was!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

by Scott Petty, co-founder of Signal Peak Ventures. Yet very small businesses (VSBs) are one of the last untapped bastions of innovation and, by association, venture dollars. Hungry for technology. When you think of the next big thing in venture funding, the corner store or local mechanic isn’t what comes to mind.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

more in Small Business. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., More in Small Business.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States. In addition to this, CB Insights points out that, in some cases, the company founder indicated that it was a mistake not to have chosen a better partner to balance out a team. Why do so many companies fail?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble. 2) Be Willing to to Experiment – I described the risks of strategy drift in Part 1 , but often great VCs still display a willingness to experiment in their business model.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. My goal is to some day get an honorary degree for kicking ass in business. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Any suggestions?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. There are actually a lot of tools and technologies available now to really streamline your day and as I said earlier it’s amazing. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. Bates: You know Josh—.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. Many investors love “disruptive” businesses. This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. 1) Younger people building companies - Many of the biggest technologies companies ever built were started by people in their 20s.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

France has proven its ability to develop innovative internet models Over the past three years, we have invested over $60 million in French technology start-ups with Showroomprive (number 2 in Europe for online private sales), BlaBlaCar ( Covoiturage.fr Why should they be penalised in such an arbitrary way?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

Nick DeSantis of the Chronicle of Higher Education writes about the incredible surge in investing in education technology start-ups. The boom really took off in 2009, when venture capitalists pushed $150-million more into education-technology firms than they did in the previous year, even as the economy sank into recession.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The system is used by over 2000 companies in 30 countries, helping them to achieve better results in almost every digital marketing and sales field. The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies.

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