YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2019
This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.
Up and Running
AUGUST 17, 2022
It teaches you how to deal with investors, what areas of your business need to be strengthened, and how to improve your pitch for the next meeting. It can be difficult to know where to start after an investor rejects your business proposal. Ask why your business was rejected. Your business isn’t primed for growth.
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YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
This is a relatively small and exclusive club thus lacks diversity, as a result produces a lot of “sameness” and blind spots that Silicon Valley investors are increasingly being criticized for. Venture Capitalist have investors as well. Last, but in no way least, Relationship : You are known to the investor.
Steve Blank
JULY 1, 2014
What’s been missing for everyone is: a common language for investors to communicate objectives to startups. a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection. Here’s John’s story. But the ‘ah-hah!’
JANUARY 9, 2014
Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. in business we can create much deeper connections with our audience and give our startups a better chance of success.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model. Here’s how.
Steve Blank
JUNE 2, 2011
Reinventing the board meeting may allow venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early formative days is search for a business model. for a business model.
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