Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada. We are paying small businesses to make and deliver meals to hungry people here in San Francisco during the COVID crisis. A full transcript of the show follows the resources below.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Lee, quite simply, has forgotten WAY more about the entertainment business than most of will ever know (see his biography below). And he has graciously agreed to give us the answers to the above questions, which winning business models to run with, which losers to run from, and much, much more! in History from UCLA.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Americas new business model: Sharing. What distinguishes the latest generation of start-ups is a confluence of new technologies and more-efficient business models that leave much of the logistical heavy-lifting to peers who share. Airbnbs (move) quieted a lot of conversations," Shapiro says. Game Hunters.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Eliqs is a Southern California based start-up who creates custom-designed craft beverage cans for any occasion worth celebrating. We had a chance to interview the founders: Dave Goldman, Max Berg, and Joe Schwappach and asked about their story, how they started their business and the future of Eliqs. marketing channel for our clients!

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

With the utility business model currently under pressure around the world from disruptive forces that many in the industry refer to as a “ death spiral ,” the city’s assertion that this money will soon be repaid should be carefully examined by every citizen and business leader in town.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I’m a business owner based out of Southern California. In September, our state governor signed an executive order that requires all new passenger vehicles sold in California to be zero-emission by 2035. This new manufacturing system will bring major changes to the current business model. 11- IoT Devices.

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Guy Nirpaz

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Having a new Totango home in California is great and allows me to meet many cutting edge businesses with free trial or freemium business models while here. Outright helps small businesses to organize their finances. Over 100,000 users worldwide are tracking the health of their businesses with Outright.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization purposes? Please use the comments below to give your thoughts and analyses on why you think Twitter is not using the affiliate business model to monetize its immense traffic. This is a question I would like to address to you guys as well.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Having moved from Amsterdam to Southern California without a social life in place was tough on some days, but at least I was part of a community/society and had the opportunity to establish a social life. Being on Mars by myself, I don’t know to be honest…. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. In my case, I am breaking down “business” to its fundamentals, which begins with a definition of what, exactly, is a “business.” A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Service companies are increasingly looking to get into work-for-equity relationships," says Peter Wendell , managing director of the Menlo Park , California -based venture capital firm Sierra Ventures and a faculty member at Stanford Business School. But that hasnt deterred outfits like Arizona Bay. Graham liked the idea.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2019

I don’t think it’s possible to have this conversation without acknowledging the privilege of being able to go full-time on a role that pays $0 right now. These are some important things to look at when deciding whether it is the right time to go full-time on your business. I will emphasize the deliberate piece?—?look It’s a process.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? We’re about to ship next week.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Entrepreneurs put together their funding presentation by extracting the key ideas from their business plan, putting them on PowerPoint/Keynote and pitching the company – until they get funded or exhausted.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

This [Lean LaunchPad class] was to me a major science experiment – having teams come in, write a business model, talk to 10 customers a week, have them present their results every week and actually be testing a series of of hypotheses. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Whereas most Christmas Tree vendors sell dead trees, the Living Christmas Company instead rents live trees and delivers them to local customers in Southern California. Through further conversation it turned out that the 200 units were sold 6 months ago and the company had not sold anything since.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. To find out more, read the FAQ and Conversation Guidelines. . . Americas new business model: Sharing. Privacy Notice/Your California Privacy Rights. Weve reached out to the schools." Contact us.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

You should know EVERYTHING about your business, product, customers and competition. You should know every metric regarding customer acquisition, conversion and retention. You should have a crystal clear understanding of your business model and your financials. ” 10.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Within a few months, they raised $30,000 (which was a lot of money for them) and were invited to an incubator for new business owners, where they learned how to run a company. Airbnb has changed the world, created a new business model for many people, and has drastically impacted how people look at properties and the space that they own.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. The conversation shouldn't end after conversion. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. Some time ago I thought these guys should meet!

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. After a consideration of their business evolution, I picked Ideas Funded for their micro-outcome. We focus on the better conversion rate definition, divide it by Visitors (or Users in GA).

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Needless to say, this isn’t a business model that works in the pandemic world. Frequently, however, you need to pivot your business model and find new ways to make money. Business model evolution is the rule, not the exception. The only problem was, we didn’t have a working business model.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Here’s a complete, 9 step guide on how to start a brewery business. Choose a business model. Fill in the business blanks. Choose a business model. Before you can start to seriously plan your own craft beer business, you need to understand the end goal that you’re aiming for.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I love business plan competitions (and with my valley-centric bias, I think Berkeley and Stanford have two of the best.) Rob Adams, the director of MootCorp, is doing an amazing job at providing value to all participants, whether it’s feedback on their business model or making the right introductions.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

You know you have achieved product/market fit when you start getting orders (or users, eyeballs or whatever your criteria for success was in your business model.) But it would have been from a profound set of founders beliefs and a serious discussion of the business tradeoffs rather than a feature list.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

The primary goal of this conversation was to explain how and why a great startup board can be a powerful tool to help the CEO make the company successful. For a business issue, I’ll say something like, “Here are three reasons why advertising might be this company’s most important business model.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The lunch conversation was an interesting data point to add to a hypothesis I’ve had. Great founders live for these moments. Creating the Entrepreneurial Personality – A Thought Experiment Fast forward three decades back to today.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virtualitics uses patented technology, based on a decade of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Department of Defense, Nestle and University of Southern California. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Pasadena, California.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 21, 2010

That’s not to say you can’t make money promoting affiliate products via PPC or getting involved with a legitimate network marketing company, because many people do, but those business models definitely aren’t for me. It also earns you TRUST with your list, and that’s as good as gold in the online world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Among her early investments are Lyft, TaskRabbit and Modcloth, which, as our recent conversation shows, are only part of the reason Forbes called her “the most powerful woman in startups.” I was in California at that point, where there were a handful of women, which to me was already really inspirational.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2016

I like to think that almost any solution to a problem can be a business. We all are involved, or overhear, conversations where people cite problems they have that no company has yet developed a solution for. In a sense, there is a way to think progressively about the business of entrepreneurship but there is no magic formula.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Lee, quite simply, has forgotten WAY more about the entertainment business than most of us will ever know (see his biography below). And he has graciously agreed to share the answers to the above questions, which winning business models to run with, which losers to run from, and much, much more! in History from UCLA.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). As we morphed our business model at Expertcity, we needed a name for the technology we had begun to license to large enterprises. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. California. Home Based Businesses. California.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

That was until my husband’s best friend Mike came over and joined the conversation. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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