Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

Most other new vehicle designers have suffered a similar fate. Define and document the portfolio of initiatives to deliver on your strategic objectives and fulfill your production and skill requirements. Scale up your portfolio of initiatives, monitor progress and dynamically pivot as your plans are implemented.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations with successful existing business models who use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants that might threaten their business models. They do this by either being Rent Seekers and/or by Regulatory Capture. Bill Gurley’s point.)

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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. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Autonomous Logistics – Global autonomous delivery revenue could reach $900bn by 2030.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Dear Brightly (a NextView portfolio company) provides a telemedicine-powered ecommerce experience for prescription-grade retinoids so consumers no longer need to take time off work to go see a dermatologist for 10 minutes just to obtain a prescription for the serum.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

4- Drop-shipping enterprise Photo Credit: Matthew Magnante It's my proposal The drop-shipping business model involves selling things that are transported straight from the supplier to the client. Your business model involves cooking and delivering delicious meals to people at their places of employment or at their homes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Qualities Of Truly Great Employees | Business Insider by Dharmesh Shah - crowdspring.co/1h0QmFY. How to Design a Website that People Trust - crowdspring.co/1bPcyPf.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight: Red Poppy Floral Design – [link]. Steve Case on Risk-Taking, or Lack Thereof, in Business | NYT – [link].

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

These bubble startups were actually guessing at their business model and did premature and aggressive hype and early company launches and had extremely high burn rates – all predicated on an IPO to raise more cash. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) (Understanding and solving homelessness, disinformation, climate change mitigation or an insurgency are examples of wicked problems. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. This new framework can act as the front-end of Customer Development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

Portfolio pricing. This model is relevant only if you have multiple products and services, each with a different cost and utility. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, some with high markups and some with low, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. Razor blade model.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

First, there are global (long-term) trends that concern IT giants and are designed for a mass audience. Suppose you want to design a room. The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. The jacket has a small “smart” sensor unit on the sleeve, designed to control your Smartphone. Why is it so?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

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. These innovations do not require change in a company’s existing business model.

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View from Seed

JUNE 24, 2020

After operating quietly for the past year, our portfolio company Jumbo made a couple big announcements yesterday, including the launch of Jumbo 2 as well as their $8M series A financing led by Balderton Capital. And they have an old-school, highly aligned business model – consumers can pay to use the premium version of their service.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Feenix Partners reports that “35% of our portfolio companies have either a female or minority (non-Caucasian) CEO or Owner.” .

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. If there are none, that should raise some doubts, as they may not have the correct resources or relevant contacts for your business. We had designed it and we were executing it.

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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. It’s A Marketing Problem.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

To make sure they stick around, you need to design an attractive site that delivers the information your investors expect. Your ESG policies shed light on the initiatives your company embraces to create a more sustainable and ethical business model. If you aren’t sure how you can do that, speak to an ESG consultant.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

7- Instructional design agency. My new business idea came from my current business. In 2020 I started a presentation design agency & scaled it globally. In 2023, I'm starting an instructional design agency as a solution. Now the boring modules will be transformed with storytelling design & fun animations.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You can learn more about the network’s design and technical specs here. Other businesses are pushing mainstream Lightning adoption for shopping. Companies like Fold (and soon V1 portfolio company Lolli ) offer cashback rewards for shoppers via Lightning, a Trojan horse for many people to acquire their first bitcoin.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

When putting together a business plan, preparation is everything; working with a professional investor is a partnership. Spend some time understanding their preferences, any portfolio gaps and the right terminology to use in your plan. Plenty of information is available on the Mercia website through our Insights section.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

They’re putting money into web services/business – most without early revenue. It’s an impressive portfolio. By the time the meeting was over I left wondering whether the Customer Development model would help or hinder their companies. What we concluded is that the Customer Development model needs an additional overlay.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. marketplace is born.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Enter the Business Model Canvas. With the business model canvas in hand, we can now approach rethinking corporate innovation strategy and structure. Existing companies and their operating divisions implement known business models. Operating divisions execute the known business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. In the early days of every business the incumbents tend not to respond because you’re too small and insignificant. Choose that market. Microeconomics.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 22, 2018

By extension, design studios who serve up what’s asked without asking questions are forfeiting their responsibility. It doesn’t demand intellectual rigor, creativity, testing, development or any of the invisible pieces that imbue truly legendary design with its effortless value. Takeaway: working in brand design is tricky.

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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. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Feenix Venture Partners : Feenix Venture Partners has a unique investment model that couples investment capital with payment processing services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

This model is relevant only if you have multiple products and services, each with a different cost and utility. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. Razor blade model. Product line pricing.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. In this post I hope to help show how to figure out which metrics matter the most, and how to design them in such a way as to drive behavior that will lead to the results that you want.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

But this financing contour description is just a proxy for underlying business metrics. In reality, a pre-seed is “an early round of financing that is designed to help a company achieve certain intermediate milestones PRIOR to the magic combination of strong PMF + meaningful traction.”. A continuum.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

And in the entertainment category, our portfolio company TripleLift provides monetization for online publishers through native ad technology. Startups also can become extremely habitual for a smaller subset of business end-users. Impact First, Business Models Second. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). Greg Levow, President & COO, Agronomic Technology Group]: “When we get into the commercial realm, scalability, user interface design, localization and multiple languages, units of measures etc.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The creator economy consists of a new set of tools designed to support content creators from all walks of life (from doctors to hobbyists). Note that most of the density in these landscapes is around ‘business model’ – ad revenue, marketplaces, memberships, affiliate. Creative Automation.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

Skeuomorphic design. FLAT design. All of this whiplash is destroying your business. All of these features, products, business models in their own right are valuable. Note to portfolio companies … I talk in terms of “shiny objects” with everybody – trust me. Native apps. Open graph.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. My design inspiration is Craigslist (no joke), because Craigslist has the highest signal to noise ratio of any major website. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **. Crunchbase.

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