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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what distribution channel? what’s the product?

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

For Web and SaaS businesses with smaller transactions at higher volumes, this kind of modeling and tracking is much easier, as web-based lead generation and marketing have easy to implement measurements, and the greater the volume of transactions, the more clearly patterns emerge. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Now I just need a business model. 5 – Ran out of cash.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight.