Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green, or because their goal is to reduce world hunger. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service? How will you differentiate your product or service?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

In a progressively saturated market, these startups need to reevaluate their strategies and wisely distribute resources to remain competitive and sustainable amidst the demands of investors and well-established competitors.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It makes the product more user-friendly and can also help build trust with customers and differentiate the product from competitors in the SaaS market. A visually appealing and consistent design can help create a strong brand image and differentiate the product from competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green, or because their goal is to reduce world hunger. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service? How will you differentiate your product or service?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Too many entrepreneurs look for that one magic bullet -- an exciting new technology, perhaps, or their own determination to make the world a better place -- to override any shortcomings in their startup model. Yet, magic bullets are not sufficient to assure business success. Product distribution or service delivery.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

You know, could you look at my business plan? See if the business model works, all these questions. So a lot of the basics are the same, but the big difference between what would be, you know, a local business, as opposed to a potentially global international business is growth. How do you differentiate yourself?

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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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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Ten years is not a very long time, but in a world of exponential technology, a lot can happen. Sure, some of the ideas below might seem like science fiction or fantasy, but so was much of the technology we take for granted today. Fear of technology, job losses and immigrants will continue its current pattern.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

If your business model (i.e., “how If you are raising money to start or grow your business, you need to include the details of what you need in the executive summary. Investors will want to know what advantages you have over the competition and how you plan on differentiating yourself. Financial summary.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. A good example is the marketing technology sector. He forgot a major highlight of the business model, and the damage was done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. Innovation is necessary to get you into the game, but even a disruptive technology won’t assure you business success. But don’t get me wrong.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2014

It means it’s easy enough to develop that eight hours or so is all it takes to build something that can then be distributed/accessed for free by lots of people. Once basic technology challenges are commoditized, it frees creative people up to more quickly explore human behaviors and reactions. Yelp Competition.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It’s been over 10 years since Napster came on the scene to disrupt traditional music business models, sparking a wave of debate on the right mix of “free” vs “paid” content going forward with digital that has yet to be fully settled. In the shift to digital music, several models emerged, with the jury still out on the clear winner.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2019

So Yahoo Small Business has been around for a while, we were started a little over 20 years ago when Yahoo bought one of the original e-commerce platforms and then since then we’ve added other products. So what does a small business do now to sort of adopt the technology that we as consumers have come to expect?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2012

The pivot has to leverage previous learning about customers, technology, and the environment. The pivot can be applied to any element of the business model, without changing the underlying vision. Technology pivot. Here are some of the most common pivot elements that Eric and others have noted: Customer problem pivot.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 5, 2023

He is the bestselling author or ghostwriter of eight business books and contributed to 50 book projects that have generated over $20 million for their authors. He's formerly Senior Vice President of Idea Development at Forrester, where he spent 20 years analyzing technology and business. So Josh, welcome to the show. Yeah, yeah.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2012

The private-public sector entrepreneurship initiative aims to, through this scheme, support first-time entrepreneurs with funding, access to relevant networks and mentors to help grow their ideas into sustainable businesses. Zinicat , a food recommendation app which leverages technologies used in financial analytics.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. Yet the team got the new service up and running and used this to power and grow their business for another 7 years, until they disrupted themselves again by moving aggressively to the streaming model.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

Often, engineers will talk about technology and won’t explain in layman’s’ terms what that means to the average person. Slide 3: Introduce your business model. How you make money, who pays you, your channels of distribution, and your gross margins. Describe the technology, secret sauce or magic behind your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The pivot has to leverage previous learning about customers, technology, and the environment. The pivot can be applied to any element of the business model, without changing the underlying vision. Technology pivot. Here are some of the most common pivot elements that Eric and others have noted: Customer problem pivot.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform. For the first time, entrepreneurs could build consumer services AND distribute them at scale with almost no physical middle men and inventory costs. retailer.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2016

This is surprising in some ways, as most big data technology is open source. Much of the investor concern over Hortonworks ‘ valuation remains a persistent concern that the company’s pure-play open source business model doesn’t work. ” The first group fits the Palantir model. Valuing open source.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

How to emulate this great business? Well, first do a quick status check on the perceived value and differentiation of your offerings via running the “what would happen if I doubled my prices?" Franchising is a great “old school” way of accomplishing this and Uber the ultimate 21st century technological way to do so.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? This by itself is a key differentiator for the Watch as a healthcare device. to the iPhone.)

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Three generations into the birth of information technology, we are at the global inflection point – while it might not seem like it today, a hundred years from now it would be obvious and self-evident. There is, in fact, an entire technology category that fits this thesis perfectly – etail or commonly referred to as e-commerce.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 9, 2013

Sustainable competitive advantages are not easily copied and generally stem from one or more of the following: vendor relations, product sourcing advantages, prime location, unique products/services; customer loyalty, customer service reputation, or distribution channel advantages. Dynamic Product Line. But for how long? Brand Loyalty.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

One might be autonomous vehicles, which is clearly a transformative technology. What can you do now that you have this piece of technology, but also thinking in terms of emotional attachment? Next question, credit Jamie McGurk for this: what’s the strategy for Reinvent, and the long term view of SPACs in the technology ecosystem?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly.

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Venture Chronicles

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Is it the thing itself, a result of a sourcing, manufacturing and distribution strategy, or is it the concept of the thing that then has all of the attendent sourcing, manufacturing and distribution attached to it. Histrionics about firearms aside (gun control, untraceable weapons, etc.),

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