Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. He just hired Meg Whitman.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete. So very few investors want Business Plans any more. On the Startup Visa Program. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I
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Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. We were up against a tight deadline where we actually had to invent a business and present to our classmates at school!”
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
While foreign entrepreneurs wait for the Startup Visa to become a reality so they can go launch their startups in the US, France has quietly had a similar program in place for some time. YEI is essentially the same as the JEI program, and winners of the competition can come to France and enjoy the same benefits as startups with JEI status.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Sign up and find out how to start a company!
Steve Blank
JUNE 18, 2013
I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.
Steve Blank
JUNE 18, 2013
I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.
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