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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. Over 10 weeks each team gets out of the building talking to 100 customers to test their hypotheses across all 9 boxes in the business model canvas. You can see the entire presentation here. Digital Health.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? Check your ego firmly at the door when evaluating business models. In the U.S. Your India strategy? •

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

It had a gut-wrenching pivot as the first business model didn’t work and today is thriving with its new one. At the beginning of Bazaarvoice in 2005, the market risk was whether or not we could convince retailers to embrace both the positive?—?and Our pivot wasn’t a business model pivot?—?it and negative?—?voice

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Member since 01/2005. While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model. AOL, Tech Crunch and What Selling Your Business Means. Business Models. Cloud Services. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). He basically outsources everything.

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The Future is Better than You Think

Growthink Blog

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? So from a business perspective, how can we make the Black Swan work for, and not against, us? This is HARD.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks.