ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Incubators and Accelerators. Then we have startup platforms like incubators and accelerators. Accelerators and incubators support the startups with a small amount of funding, mentorship, networking opportunities, resources, and workspaces. ? Options for initial setup. ? Stages of Funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Startup Angel Investor Technical Review 283

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 161

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 296

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Media incubator ESPACIO , has announced its acquisition of the tech news publication 150sec – the renowned online magazine focused on entrepreneurship and tech in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The recent acquisition by ESPACIO has both Adrian and Agata hopeful for the future of the publication.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.);

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

This place is often called an incubator or accelerator, or just a group of peers. One of the most successful incubators is Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. An occasional discussion with a mentor won’t do it. You need to feel the passion of others in the same stage. The scale - expand to reach your full potential.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator Merger 348

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2013

People who’ve already shopped at your store may be following you on Facebook or Twitter, but engaging with them isn’t going to drive new customer acquisitions. Matt is also responsible for its internet Yellow Pages (iYP) products and Consumer, Payments, Incubator and Latin initiatives. But you need to be mindful about your approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 16, 2012

Incubators are hot. The flock of incubators is spawning a glut of wanna-be entrepreneurs ready to quit their jobs, commit their lives to a 10-week incubator program and end up with nothing but broken dreams and a souvenir hoodie. You should select an incubator the same way. There are more than a thousand in the U.S.,

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Incubator Phoenix Startup Venture Capital 131

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In 2010 it got worse with an Act in parliament about the Monitoring of Foreigners’ Corporate Acquisitions. Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge. Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.” The country needs to figure out a long term privatization strategy for Venture investing.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 324

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 286

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 286

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We described the theory versus current practice of defense requirements, acquisition and budgeting in Slides 28-32. is still using a McNamara-era requirements and acquisition system designed by financial managers from Ford and imposed on the DOD in the early 1960s. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs.

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Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. You can also read more about Bizosys on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. The game, now, is to push the envelope on price, performance and functionality - a game that 1M/1M looks forward to helping Freshdesk play!

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, our requirements and acquisition systems are driven by a 70-year-old model predicated on predicting the future (both threats and technology) and delivering solutions decades out; and optimized for lifecycle costs, not rapid innovation or disposable systems. The DoD has over 75 incubators and accelerators.

Technology 387

Technology China Artificial Inteligence Acquisition 387

NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Niesh worked with ecentre, the startup business incubator at Massey University, as part of the Sprint Launch programme, focusing on growth through customer acquisition. Business incubator “ecentre” is based at Massey University’s Auckland campus in Albany. It’s not always the right approach,” said Yoo.

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Global New Zealand Incubator Startup 50

Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2021

And then she fought with the acquisition folks to buy the trivial amount of additional hardware needed to connect it. Successful organizations recognize that innovation isn’t a single activity (incubators, accelerators, hackathons); it is a strategically organized end-to-end process from idea to deployment. see this HBR article.)

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. Acquisition. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. 4 days ago. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Cloud services.

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Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2012

With the acquisition, Geoloqi’s software is not going away. All Geoloqi’s investors hail from Oregon, and the company was a star of the city’s incubators. Geoloqi’s free apps show off the kinds of superpowers that can be built using its software development kit. On the contrary, version 2 is on its way with Esri’s blessing.

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Portland Oregon Merger Software Developers 163

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Acquisition, technology, and logistics. In some of our class sessions you’ve heard about how acquisition in the Department of Defense hasn’t kept up with new threats, adversaries, and new technologies. But Will Roper who runs Air Force acquisition, technology and logistics, gives lie to that assertion. Technology is what it is.

Technology 388

Technology China Agile Acquisition 388

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Max Ventilla took Aardvark from startup to Google acquisition, a case study Eric described in The Lean Startup. He’ll talk with Eric Ries about how companies successfully scale.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

If true, and our sources are very well placed, the acquisition helps end a tumultuous period of Color’s existence. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science. graph and patents related to GPS location and battery saving.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

During today's roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs and also had a segment on our yearlong engagement with incubators around the world. The 1M/1M team has invested significant resources to engage with and understand the challenges of the Incubator industry around the globe.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

Singapore-based F&B veteran Michel Lu earlier this week launched Revolver Asia , a boutique corporate advisory that looks to provide business incubation and acceleration for startup lifestyle businesses in the food and beverage sector.

Asia 213

Asia Singapore Incubator Merger 213

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We described the theory versus current practice of defense requirements, acquisition and budgeting in Slides 28-32. is still using a McNamara-era requirements and acquisition system designed by financial managers from Ford and imposed on the DOD in the early 1960s. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles Mobile 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Los Angeles Southern California CTO Hire 150

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2012

With the acquisition, Geoloqi’s software is not going away. All Geoloqi’s investors hail from Oregon, and the company was a star of the city’s incubators. Geoloqi’s free apps show off the kinds of superpowers that can be built using its software development kit. On the contrary, version 2 is on its way with Esri’s blessing.

Portland 104

Portland Oregon Merger Software Developers 104

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Most often the first acquisitions in a hype cycle are for the “shiny objects” – the technology, the team and the tools. The irony is that the acquisitions made later in the hype cycle – when companies have built real products that customers want, are the ones that generate revenue and profit for the acquirer.

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Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Technical Cofounder Southern California CTO Hire 150

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition. CustomerDiscovery. About Sramana Mitra.

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Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124