YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

A desired deal is one that is engineered specifically with the big picture in mind. Begin by shaping your acquisition plans out of a long-term growth strategy and align the terms with what’s required to successfully integrate the target company. Structuring the Desired Deal. Obtaining the Funding.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. Tom has added a class on entrepreneurial ethics.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. The Wrong Metrics.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 290

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

Let me give you some examples I see of fauxmentum: In the SaaS world I see many business plans where companies have achieved 100-300% year-over-year growth and this is truly impressive. I’m not saying you shouldn’t grow engineering or do PR. But can sensible management team even do anything about it?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. The Wrong Metrics.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory - income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models - seems like another planet.

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Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

this leadership also attracts the best and the brightest scientists, engineers, and developers from around to the world to our shores. private equity firms and $515 billion on the balance sheets of leading tech. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital'

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Balance Sheet Private Equity Venture Capital .Net 48

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s hard to imagine, but only a decade ago, the capstone entrepreneurship class in most universities was how to write – or pitch- a business plan. In my experience, I saw that most business plans don’t survive first contact with customers. As a serial entrepreneur turned educator, this didn’t make sense to me.

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Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video 248

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

She is regularly invited to participate as a judge for business plan competitions, as well as speak on topics including entrepreneurship, angel investing, social media, and authentic self promotion. Needless to say, the webinar was absolutely packed with great tips on what it takes to pitch your business so that investors take notice.

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