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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco. The market and venture capitalists are looking for business, but with a continuing focus on proven business models. Line up a winning team.

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2016 VC Half-Thoughts: The Industry Has Shifted Back to Investing in Technology, Not Business Models

Hunter Walker

When we started Homebrew in 2013 our industry was, in retrospect, probably midway through a cycle where innovations were in business model rather than underlying technology. Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals.

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Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Steve Blank

———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Finding a viable business model is not a linear, analytical process that can be guided by a business plan.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. When you leave the class, you’ll know how to think about your startup in the now standard “language” of the business model canvas.

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Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Steve Blank

———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Finding a viable business model is not a linear, analytical process that can be guided by a business plan.

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Who Dares Wins – The 2nd Annual International Business Model Competition

Steve Blank

Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2 nd Annual International Business Model Competition , hosted by Professor Nathan Furr , and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. Tools to help them manage the search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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Why Your Business’s Purpose Should Be More Than Making Money

Up and Running

The shift toward business models that embrace social responsibility raises questions about how financially sustainable it is to dedicate resources and employee energy to doing good in the world. Some may argue that such efforts are best left to individuals, not businesses. Companies are waking up to the value of doing more. .

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