Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

Is your organization full of Hackathons, Shark Tanks, Incubators and other innovation programs, but none have changed the trajectory of your company/agency? We describe their efforts as “heroic” because all the established procedures and processes in a large company are primarily designed to execute and support the current business model.

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Programming Incubator Leadership Silicon Valley 320

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

For most companies it feels like innovation can only happen by exception and heroic efforts, not by design. The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The question is – why?

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. The second class will be firms with a demonstrated ability to continually innovate and reinvent their business models.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. Does your business touch potential voters? I’m also incubating a startup, Action Tank , to help other NGOs accomplish their goals using their supporters’ unique expertise. Why is that?

Venture Capital 60

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 8, 2012

As college graduation weekends and summer business incubator announcements loom, I thought I would take a few minutes to consider the connection between the entrepreneurship and academia. Entrepreneurs, by definition, take an idea or a concept and strive to make that idea into a operating business. Academics experiment.

Software Review 112

Software Review Entrepreneur Incubator Valuation 112

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

Universities ; including the business, design and engineering schools in the Catholic University of Chile who are hard at work teaching and encouraging their students to think big and to start companies. Small Business versus Scalable Startup versus Corporate Entrepreneurship.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

We also had Ajit Narayanan present AVAZ , designed by Invention Labs, a neat learning and communication product that helps people with disabilities such as cerebral palsy, autism, mental retardation, and speech disorders to communicate. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Cortese Design Bags. Debra Cortese, from Miami, Florida, discussed Cortese Design Bags , a designer of tote bags with natural designs. Please remember, free is not a business model. So Richard, please continue to charge money for the value you offer.

Business Model 122

Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. I-Corps teams spent the class refining their business model and minimum viable product. Methodology. Lessons Learned.

Lean 248

Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 248

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. in developing these new models. And why wouldn’t it be?

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Lean Nepal Cofounder Customer Development 326

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 billion in 2010.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter and Jonathan discuss startup incubators, and our guest Caroline talks to us about the “F” word and 10 reasons why startups fail. Startup Incubators – (2:13). Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. He’s helped a lot of small businesses succeed.

Incubator 60

Incubator Email Startup Oregon 60

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C.

Delaware 297

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 297

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

One would think that designing a medical device would be a simple engineering problem, and startups would be emerging right and left. Business Model Issues. on medical device revenues, regardless of profitability delays or cash-flow breakeven. Business Model Issues.

Startup 294

Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 294

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2015

His organization ran a corporate incubator for disruptive ( horizon 3 ) experiments and provided innovation support for the divisions for process and business model innovations ( Horizon 1 and 2.) Roberto’s innovation teams are temporary organizations designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Lean 120

Lean Metrics Business Model Distribution 120

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. Does it become a new division?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. Eric, As you touch on, the lean venture has been the basic model employed by entrepreneurs throughout history until the past 12 years or so when venturing became institutionalized.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C.

Delaware 189

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 189

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we started off by discussing the pre-incubation procedure we are recommending with audience members from different parts of the world. This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system.

Silicon Valley 105

Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator 105

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

We’re at 70 people, and we’ll do $40 million in revenue this year and should get to cash flow breakeven this quarter. ” In this first step, the goal of a startup is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. It sounded like he was living the dream. I was trying to figure out why we were meeting.

Startup 120

Startup Lean Venture Capital Advisory Board 120

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Manoj has deep domain knowledge in the CCS market segment and has designed a solution that addresses the missing real-time data dashboard functionality of the industry. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I don’t have any formal business training and I actually think it’s served me well. I’m studying design.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. The Investors In researching this post, we solicited the advice of a number of investors.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. My question was around the size of the catalog that can be pulled together that will render affiliate commissions and will meet quality standards of this business.

Acquisition 115

Acquisition SEO San Francisco India 115

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

Darfur 122

Darfur Sudan Cofounder United Kingdom 122

Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

It is not a small business loan program. . It is not an accelerator, incubator or any other type of ator. . VC funding can great for some companies, but it comes with a certain set of expectations that have an impact on everything from business model to company culture. And revenue better still. . What it is.

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San Francisco Cap Table Non-Compete Distribution 40

Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2015

Design to Grow. From the description: “In ‘Design to Grow,’ a Coca-Cola senior executive shares both the successes and failures of one of the world’s largest companies as it learns to use design to be both agile and big. Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue.

Widget 60

Widget Agile Small Business United States 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His organization had a corporate incubator for disruptive ( horizon 3 ) experiments and provided innovation support for his company’s operating divisions for process and business model innovations ( Horizon 1 and 2.) they worked with their designated point of contact (Finance, HR, Legal, etc.)

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Finance Lean Metrics Programming 226