Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

These firms can provide various services, including financing and business advice. They can also help you develop your product and sales channels. VC funding is best suited for businesses with high growth potential. They also look for a robust business model and product/market fit. Seed Rounds.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Image via Flickr by Side Wages Some entrepreneurs forget that they need an innovative business model along with an innovative solution to have a successful startup. Inventors alone, or business gurus alone, generally fail. Technologists forget that investors are buying a chunk of the business, not the product.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. All of these are about the product being badass.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

You have a single group chat channel and a single all@yourcompany.com mailing list. A full copy of the state of the entire company and your product is easily contained within everyone’s brain. Your single internal chat and email channels continue to work fine. There’s no real need to track any tasks or even bugs.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Reality rarely matches the expectations, including those pitch decks that were presented to your investors. Even if the product launch was not as successful as planned, this doesn't necessarily mean that you need to pivot immediately. Gather data, analyze it and try to understand why the results are what they are.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2017

In short, they need to approach data and experimentation from multiple fronts, so it gets a bit complicated in how they actually do this, as well as how they balance experimentation with their typical product development process. They’re a subscription business, so ongoing communications are important.

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