Remove Business Model Remove Channel Remove Engineer Remove Later Stage
article thumbnail

Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy.

article thumbnail

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.)

Restful 222
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. The founders.

Founder 245
article thumbnail

How to Launch Your Own Startup Part 4 (money, culture and becoming a manager)

The Next Web

Most first-time entrepreneurs write huge business plans, instead of creating a short pitch-deck. Focus on building a prototype, test your business model and create a clear strategy to become a sustainable and scaleable business fast. I hired very junior people, many directly from college, or from their first jobs.

article thumbnail

Self-referential business models (aka. channel I N C E P T I O N)

The Startup Toolkit

During a workshop the other day, we spent 10 minutes as a group coming up with a business model providing daycare for busy professional moms. This feels good, but there’s one crucial missing ingredient: channel. So we made mom the channel. We have a channel for the bosses, but not for the moms.

article thumbnail

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. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

article thumbnail

A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. ABM is a full-court press to build powerful engagement with contacts on the channels that they’re most active. How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns. Test different channels. Do they get along?