Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. Supply and demand. He turned to Mike Jones at Science who was newly set up as an accelerator of sorts or a venture studio. Like oDesk.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. When I asked, “What are you working on?” What’s a Startup?
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Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. When I asked, “What are you working on?” What’s a Startup?
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
I’m not afraid to pick up the phone, cold call someone, use LinkedIn to find someone who’s recently left a company that might be considered competitive and ask them for advise around the business model and marketplace. Then decide if you can build more value on either end of that process to demand a higher premium. 5% I believe.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. Startup X launches with XX millions of dollars of seed capital from a star-studded list of investors”. … Traction: The new way of raising seed funding. But probably not how you’d think.
View from Seed
APRIL 23, 2015
As NextView’s David Beisel likes to say, “We live in a demand-constrained world. Their business models are, in many cases, focused on outlier exits within the portfolio. Note that many were included in our pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. You can find those here. ).
techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Yeah, you should get out more Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things Skype Demands Mobile App Nimbuzz Remove Support, Effective October 31st Shunned By Apple, Adobe Embraces Android With AIR 2.5 Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model.
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