VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Challenges galore Like any tech advancement at scale, to succeed in this endeavour requires deep pockets: cloud resources and costly GPUs, expensive AI engineers and a working business model, all of which Google already has. We’re moving away from the 10 blue links (and sometimes 10 blue ads) and moving into something different.

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Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

According to the data, 76% of business owners have pivoted or are in the process of pivoting their business model to maintain revenue, and among those that already pivoted, 73% expect to pivot again in the next year. Kathryn Petralia is the President and Co-Founder of Kabbage , an American Express Company.

Small Business 147

Small Business Cofounder United States Technical Review 147

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The supply vs demand mismatch is further exacerbated by existing supply concentration in certain geographies (often big cities). By removing physical boundaries, the care delivery modality provides an obvious advantage to more efficiently match geographically unbalanced provider supply with patient demand. . Affordability .

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Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 15:05] Do you think that the no headquarters model is going to impact startups going forward? [17:14]

San Francisco 97

San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors.

Revenue 60

Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

Believe it or not, the business world changes even faster than technology, so you need to see changes coming in your industry, and even drive them. That means taking calculated risks with new business models, new customer segments, as well as new products and services. Ability to keep track of new technology advancements.

Founder 312

Founder Intellectual Property Dilution Startup 312

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Friendly or hostile takeover attempts are just a couple of the many ways that company founders sense a loss of control of their own destiny. The board of directors, as well as public stockholders, are no longer part of the inside team focused on the founder’s vision to change the world. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

IPO 210

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 210

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Luckily Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas presents a visual overview of the nine components of a business on one page.

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Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Angel Investor Technical Review 283

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

It will enable individuals to understand the travellers’ needs and expectations intimately which can result in new hospitality business models. They understand the need to constantly improve in order to develop resilient hospitality business models hand-in-hand with their employers.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Singapore Artificial Inteligence Myanmar 165

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Within each brand there were several models at different price points. Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products with new models rolled out every year. Think of the iPhone and its yearly new models.). What Does GM Have to Do with Tesla And Elon Musk?

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Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

Startup 161

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 161

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

Startup 296

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 296

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

2- Yes, to build a customer-centric business model Photo Credit: David Brewer We based and built it around the idea that our industry could, and should do better and that was the model that we were going to implement that idea as our core objective. Thanks to Evan Tunis, Florida Healthcare Insurance ! #2-

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Business Plan Jordan Entrepreneur Florida 126

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

Startup 286

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 286

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next. And they also recognize that simply exploiting their existing assets, capabilities, and business models is insufficient for long-term survival.

Incubator 402

Incubator Lean Agile Business Model 402

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. In the News business model daily deals flash sales luxury travel Singapore TheLuxeNomad'

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Flash Business Model Sales Singapore 164

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Friendly or hostile takeover attempts are just a couple of the many ways that company founders sense a loss of control of their own destiny. The board of directors, as well as public stockholders, are no longer part of the inside team focused on the founder’s vision to change the world. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

IPO 218

IPO SEC Prospectus Technical Review 218

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2019

By the time they are up and running they are so busy with the day to day aspects of keeping their business ticking over that they can become overwhelmed at the time demands of invoicing, tax compliance and a thousand other distractions competing for their attention.

Software Review 176

Software Review Due Diligence Startup Stock 176

www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. Noam is one of a rare breed of business academics: he studies entrepreneurship using a rigorous empirical approach. by Eric Ries.

Equity 72

Equity Founder Technical Cofounder Cofounder 72

The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 28, 2011

It eventually leads to a business model that can be used to build a sustainable venture. Once we learn what our business model needs to be, we can begin the second phase, which includes attracting more and more customers and building a company. Tinker with the business model until you're ready to scale up the venture.

Business Model 75

Business Model Demand Nashville Lean 75

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s disheartening, but sadly, this is one experience that many startup founders face. I understand the struggles that come with being a startup founder. You’re getting more users, more traffic, and more demand. How do you keep up with the increasing demand? The good news is that there’s hope!

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Design Product Churn Rate Architecture 105

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Philadelphia Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Pennsylvania 62

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Co-founder Holly Liu will walk us through the the decisions that led to that outcome. In a fireside chat, Kathryn Minshew of The Muse and Brit Morin of Brit + Co will discuss their strategies for acquiring customers and how they continuously innovate to stay ahead of the shifting demands of the millennial generation.

Lean 103

Lean Las Vegas Cofounder Startup 103

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. TSM: In this current environment, what have been the additional business challenges for you and how have you adjusted your operation and business model?

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Founder Chicago Cofounder Global 158

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

Talking to customers seems like a simple idea, but most founders find it’s one of the hardest things they have to do. Founders innately believe they understand a customers problem and just need to spend their time building a solution. But other business/mission model components must be tested and validated, too.

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Customer Business Model Restful Video 413

The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

As part of our Founder Interview series, The Startup Magazine caught up with entrepreneur Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of music-tech leader, Soundtrack Your Brand. Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand. We decided to set up a joint venture to go after the global “Audio for Business” market, and Soundtrack was born.

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Founder B2C B2B Audio 156

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

I’ve spent more than four decades founding, coaching, teaching and investing in startups, and nothing breaks my heart more than meeting a starry-eyed founder who says “we’re almost ready to show it to people.” The “it” is a physical or web product they’ve often been locked-down, pounding away at, for many weeks. Dropbox is a great example.

Startup 332

Startup Cofounder Customer Development Viral 332

Up and Running

MARCH 12, 2019

For a lot of non-technical founders—that is, entrepreneurs with a business idea but without technical expertise— sourcing software development talent is critical. In many areas, however, the high demand for tech talent appears to be larger than the supply of qualified tech and software developers for hire.

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IP Software Developers Software Development Intellectual Property 80

ReadWriteStart

JULY 9, 2023

At the same time, startups are indeed exciting and highly satisfying for their founders. A founder needs certain skills and knowledge. They impact fundraising, hiring, intellectual property rights and patents, and many more things around starting and running a business. A good founder is always a good communicator.

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Intellectual Property Startup Burn Rate Metrics 122

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” Fix something that’s broken.

Startup 363

Startup Internet Business Plan Global 363

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

Too many founders today face the conundrum that they need capital to get started, and even Angels defer until after you have your product built, business model proven, and a real revenue stream. These Angels typically don’t demand board seats, and are not as heavy-handed as VCs.

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Angel Investor Entrepreneur Early Stage Silicon Valley 231

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The country exited the Civil War as a nation of small businesses and ended the century with large national corporations (railroads, steel, oil, food, insurance, etc.). These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Neither cases nor business plans replicate the actual startup experience.

Lean 433

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 433

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." Investors demand more than that. Now that You've Got MVP, It's Time to Think About MVC You can't raise money on achieving an MVP.

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Algorithm Metrics Viral Venture Capital 264

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63