Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2014

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Of course, one sale isn’t really enough, so you need to get the first customer to recommend you to a second, and make sure the rate of sales ramps up quickly enough to keep the business alive and growing.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

There are emerging marketplaces in the chemical industry seeking to increase sales in 2022 by helping both the chemical buyers and sellers to be able to find each other. Obtaining a competitive advantage while improving consistency and quality ensures that the supply chain will soon embrace flexible business models and become more efficient.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

You can reach out to businesses in your target market and offer them incentives to join your marketplace. Then, once you have a critical mass of buyers and sellers, you need to start promoting your marketplace to drive traffic and generate sales. . Finally, promote your online store through social media and other marketing channels.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Marked by their brevity and exclusivity, limited-time offers and flash sales are time-sensitive promotions that create a sense of urgency and excitement among customers. Here are strategies that will enable you to use them to effectively boost your sales and promote your enterprise’s brand and offerings.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

pexels A war chest is virtually always a competitive edge in all aspects that count, including employing key staff, public relations, marketing, and sales. When expanding their businesses, most tech startups and the subindustries that comprise the tech industry typically follow this model. Hence they will miss the finish line.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2021

You’ve heard all the sales pitches and lofty claims before, and you’ve developed a snap reaction of disbelief. Older people cling to the notion of listening to their elders and getting advice through traditional channels. They’re accessible via more channels. The older you get, the more firmly you become set in your ways.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

On the topic of ecommerce, one wonders to what extent this business model is applicable, and where is it likely to end? It’s the extent of this phenomenon that has resulted in soaring businesses across the world. This new shift impacted as much as a 4% improvement in total sales of brands that had made the shift.

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Gust

JANUARY 5, 2014

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Of course, one sale isn’t really enough, so you need to get the first customer to recommend you to a second, and make sure the rate of sales ramps up quickly enough to keep the business alive and growing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

Many entrepreneurs work hard on the proof of concept (technical), but skip any proof of the business model (revenue flow). In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. So how do you go about proving the business model?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. In my experience as a new business advisor, a business is nothing until people are aligned and work in sync. Key activities. Key partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

Many entrepreneurs work hard on the proof of concept (technical), but skip any proof of the business model (revenue flow). In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. So how do you go about proving the business model?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Of course, one sale isn’t really enough, so you need to get the first customer to recommend you to a second, and make sure rate of sales ramps up quickly enough to keep the business alive and growing.

Business Model 244

Business Model Sales Customer Distribution 244

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sales is all about how to get more customers, and relationship funnels prioritize establishing a genuine connection with your customers. Relationship funnel vs. sales funnel — What’s the difference? It’s easy to confuse relationship funnels with traditional sales or marketing funnels, however, they differ significantly.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. According to the Adjust and Sensor Tower report, in 2021, m-commerce accumulated 54% of all e-commerce sales worldwide, whose market exceeds $3.5 Only in 2021, 72.9%

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The goal is to transform dormant or underutilized assets into active capital that supports your business. It is also the time to take a hard look at your business model. Firms invest significant resources in understanding the borrower’s business model, market position, and growth potential.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) Channel Cost = $350-400,000 per sales team.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The faster this process can be repeated, the more likely they’ll find scalable, repeatable ways to grow the business.”. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. Image source. Acquisition.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. I support her assertion that a business model consists of at least the first seven of the following ten basic elements: Value proposition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

Many entrepreneurs work hard on the proof of concept (technical), but skip any proof of the business model (revenue flow). In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. So how do you go about proving the business model?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For example, you can ask for feedback from your customers on what they like and dislike about your company, or you can examine your competitors’ strengths and weaknesses to see how your business compares. . It is how customers find new businesses and how they decide which business to give their money to.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2021

For this reason, re-evaluating your current business model and determining if any new platforms or processes need to be implemented will promote long-term improvement. When it comes to sales, the mid-year point is the time to take a look back at trends and patterns that arose in the first half of the year.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2 nd Annual International Business Model Competition , hosted by Professor Nathan Furr , and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. In an existing corporation, the business plan is the execution document for sustaining innovation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Her packaging class was so good that we sent every new marketer at SuperMac to take it.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2010

It’s the combination of Business Model Design and Customer Development. Business Model Design. Today every business organization from startup to large company uses the words “business model.” More importantly they showed how any company’s business model could be defined in 9 boxes.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. I support her assertion that a business model consists of at least the first seven of the following ten basic elements: Value proposition.

Business Model 246

Business Model Distribution Viral Green 246

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 10, 2010

In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. These companies typically make money either by charging sellers for listing (akin to the yellow pages) or by charging a sales commission (akin to a "finder's fee"). Or a commission on leads which convert to sales?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) How can we attract buyers to our channel before they make purchasing decisions? Sales process: buyer/ user/ influencer etc.? Demand generation?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model , reducing customer and market risk. In Discovery startups take all their hypotheses about the business model: product, market, customers, channel, etc. VP of Sales – “Six in the field, plus me.”

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Even if you already know what a SWOT analysis is and what it’s used for, it can be tough to translate that information and examine your own business with a critical eye. Reading an example SWOT analysis for a business that is either in your industry or based on a comparable business model can help get you started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. In my experience as a new business advisor, a business is nothing until people are aligned and work in sync. Key activities. Key partners.

Intellectual Property 250

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Use a minimum viable product (MVP) to validate the model.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. What’s the hottest trend in business right now? Salesforce was thinking along these lines when it acquired SteelBrick, a company that helps sales reps give price quotes, take orders, generate invoices and accept payments. Is there other software that does this?

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