Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

This introductory phase includes early development of business and financial plans, gathering information and research on the sector and registering with the government as a legal entity. However, when a business needs to take on more employees to meet demand, the business is said to be growing.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2013

A good business owner will have a contingency plan set up which allows the company to continue, even if an entire physical location was lost. Situation #3: One Revenue Stream One of the biggest mistakes many businesses make is relying too heavily on one customer or revenue stream.

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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. Now it’s cost + markup + 14 layers of intermediaries who all get a cut = price paid by insurance or the government.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2010

The company had innovated, found a business model, grown successfully but now even as revenues continued to grow, the company was slowly but surely dying. The other founder, the business guy, managed to get its product legislated into consumer electronics devices. It was impressive. More on this in another post.).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. We figured our key partners would include consumers (to contribute data much like Wikipedia’s users), manufacturers (to keep their product information updated) and the US government (to supply datasets to power our content). An Untested Hypothesis. By 2009, I was fed up.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.). Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. government for funding. VC “Plan B”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. We should remind them that, as Steve Blank said, “a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” What is there not to like?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. They kind of invented this business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2017

billion acquisition of high-end food retailer Whole Foods, the retailing behemoth has also been quietly setting itself apart by finding a way to include low-income shoppers too. Further, Amazon took its marketing to the next level by pricing Prime subscriptions at a nearly 50 percent discount for people on government assistance.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Understanding this, historically, the government has enacted a number of policies to improve access to public markets and home ownership, such as many changes to the tax code and legislation that famously made 401(k)s opt-out instead of opt-in (lesson: intelligent defaults can change the world). in addition to home ownership.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. LSC: What''s an example of one metric, other than revenue, that you might look at for a non-tech product? We often tell founders that a business plan is nonsense. Consider a restaurant.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Fairchild Semiconductor became the progenitor of a flood of Silicon Valley chip companies and at the same time the adoption of the limited partnership as the model for Venture Firms gave VC’s their own profitable business model. Their capital needs are low at the front end. Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 30, 2018

Then, when deal opportunities present themselves - like strategic partnerships, new hires, marketing campaigns, growth-by-acquisitions, etc. And with fund-raising, there naturally follows an evaluation of a business’ scalability, its ability to grow revenues at a faster rate than variable costs - marketing, sales, customer fulfillment, etc.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

government via Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The other interesting observation: Unlike other medical device companies, Apple’s current Watch business model is not dependent on getting insurers to pay for the watch. In the U.S. and/or the U.S. Today consumers pay directly for the Watch. Outside the U.S.,

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Michael Kassing.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

Entrepreneurship in Britain continues to remain very much in vogue, ably assisted by heavy backing from most quarters (not least the media and government). A more fundamental problem that entrepreneurs can control, however, is related to their understanding of the key revenue drivers of their businesses. gives a U.K.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 22, 2012

For your business, what about it will get the buyers' attention? Will it be your cash flow, recurring revenues, or potential for significant future growth? Similarly, an acquirer will ask: How easy will it be to run this business after acquisition? This is harder to do in the "survival" stage of your business, obviously.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. start-ups fail, he says. All Rights Reserved.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. I’ve seen too many businesses get stuck or fail because of their endless pursuit for the magic new feature that is going to help them gain traction. Sure, you’re not going to get it right at first, no one does.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

We ended up receiving a $5m term sheet from investors, dozens of government customers from all across the western United States, and several offers to acquire us for 10x the initial investment. My investor meetings would be long and scattered because my business’s mission was. Getting there was a struggle. percent a year.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I don’t have any formal business training and I actually think it’s served me well. Once you’ve done that – then.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Needless to say, this isn’t a business model that works in the pandemic world. It might cater to new customers, it might solve a different need, or it might involve a different revenue model. Essentially, a pivot means that the business changes in some real way. Today, PayPal is *the* online payments company.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. A rich companyis one with large revenues. How hard is that?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Amos Spacecom.

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