Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

For no good reason, this process seems shrouded in mystery, when in fact it is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. If results don’t match what they have been told, all bets are off. Business and financial status.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 225

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2024

04:53] How would you differentiate between strategic thinking and strategic planning? [06:31] So nearly half of the CEOs said that they did not think they would be in business in 10 years unless they significantly evolved the way that they do business. 03:37] How do you balance the reality of long term and short term planning?

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Campaign Leadership Differentiation Email 71

Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

For no good reason, this process seems shrouded in mystery, when in fact it is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. If results don’t match what they have been told, all bets are off. Business and financial status.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 152

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation . An added bonus is having more comfort and control around your business even when NOT fundraising! .

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution. When does a new venture focus on customer development and business models ? Here’s an attempt to put this all in context.

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Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 320

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

In this variation on the free model, used by LinkedIn and many other Internet offerings, the basic services are free, but premium services are available for an additional fee. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to convert users to paying customers.

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Revenue Startup Business Model Retention 287

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs. But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model. It enables new business models.

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Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 329

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2020

At what point in your business trajectory is it worth revisiting your brand and putting resources into a rebrand? Your business model, target audience, or goals have changed. We saw this when Zendesk a few years ago – their offerings had shifted and they needed an identity to match. Your brand lacks consistency.

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Developer PR Differentiation Retention 154

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

In this variation on the free model, used by LinkedIn and many other Internet offerings, the basic services are free, but premium services are available for an additional fee. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to “convert” users to paying customers.

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Product Revenue Business Model Retention 290

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Choose a business model that will win in the market. You need a business model that provides a good return for you and your team, long-term growth, value to your customer, and differentiates you from competitors. Find a higher purpose in your dream that matches your values, and could benefit from your strengths.

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Technical Review Government Agile Business Model 201

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Outline your business model. Your business model tells an investor how your idea will (or does) convert into being economically viable. The best way to show you how to communicate your business model is to show you an example of a good one. Your business model should answer the questions: What do you sell?

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Sweat Equity Churn Rate Elevator Pitch Forecast 122

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2013

This suggests you have lost your passion for the current business model, probably because someone suggested you change from your original concept to make it easier, or to make more money. Every entrepreneur has the challenge of making a market, or differentiating his product to match an existing market.

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Turkey Startup Bootstrapping Differentiation 252

Gust

AUGUST 24, 2014

In this variation on the free model, used by LinkedIn and many other Internet offerings, the basic services are free, but premium services are available for an additional fee. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to convert users to paying customers.

Revenue 184

Revenue Startup Retention Business Model 184

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

This suggests you have lost your passion for the current business model, probably because someone suggested you change from your original concept to make it easier, or to make more money. Every entrepreneur has the challenge of making a market, or differentiating his product to match an existing market.

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Startup Turkey Bootstrapping Differentiation 229

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2010

This suggests you have lost your passion for the current business model, probably because someone suggested you change from your original concept to make it easier, or to make more money. Every entrepreneur has the challenge of making a market, or differentiating his product to match an existing market.

Turkey 239

Turkey Startup Bootstrapping Differentiation 239

Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2014

Outline your business model. Your business model tells an investor how your idea will (or does) convert into being economically viable. The best way to show you how to communicate your business model is to show you an example of a good one. Your business model should answer the questions: What do you sell?

Sweat Equity 138

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Forecast Business Model 138

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

In this variation on the free model, used by LinkedIn and many other Internet offerings, the basic services are free, but premium services are available for an additional fee. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to users locked-in as free.

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Product Startup Revenue Portfolio 247

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

But the Journal also quoted Patricia Greene, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College (which often ranks as the nation's top entrepreneurial college) warning that benchmarking could actually discourage companies from using innovative business models. But it's my differentiator. Goodman agrees.

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Algorithm Startup Green Early Stage 128

Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

While traditional business models provide a more regular income, in the real estate world, it might be three months before you get paid—and it could even be longer. Cheryl Julcher of Yellow Brick Properties differentiated her brand from competitors by developing a brand of homes called Zoetic Homes™.

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Reputation Cofounder Naming Business Plan 60

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

As a result VCs who didn’t want to only compete on price began looking for ways to differentiate their money from the money of other investors and started deploying the strategies listed above. Business model. Entrepreneurship is becoming more science and less art. And what’s holding it back?

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

But the Journal also quoted Patricia Greene, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College (which often ranks as the nation's top entrepreneurial college) warning that benchmarking could actually discourage companies from using innovative business models. But it's my differentiator. Goodman agrees.

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Algorithm Startup Green Early Stage 87

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The other thing that WordPress has got that I think some of the other competitors just cannot match is the sense of community. I think brand becomes more important as you mature as a business, but if you need conversions, you need tracking, you need leads, you need customers. It’s reflected in our core values.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

But the Journal also quoted Patricia Greene, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College (which often ranks as the nation’s top entrepreneurial college) warning that benchmarking could actually discourage companies from using innovative business models. But it’s my differentiator. Goodman agrees.

Algorithm 60

Algorithm Startup Green Early Stage 60

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Businesses start from scratch with invention, but simply adding on to that foundation with invention alone ultimately results in failure: whether by inability to adapt to changes in the market, competition, or technological foundations, to a potentially unfocused Frankenstein’s monster of mis-matched elements.

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Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

You do in small business, in startups, you survive on focus, and my shortcut to strategy that I like is think about identify, market and business offering. Identity is who you are as a business, what you do best, what is your core competent. Market for me is who is your key target market? What is your key focus?

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

These three components (revenue, COGS, and gross margin) are the backbone of your business model—i.e., You’ll also list your operating expenses, which are the expenses associated with running your business that aren’t incurred directly by making a sale. your gross margin, which is your revenue less your COGS. how you make money.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

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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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

Plain words make it very difficult to differentiate your company from your competitors. For example, there were hundreds of thousands of logo design businesses around the world when we started thinking about “crowdSPRING&#. Avoid plain words. Consider whether you can register a domain and obtain a trademark.

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Naming Small Business Minnesota Product Name 120

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

New opportunities have emerged in this space with direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands trying to create differentiation and tilt marketplace dynamics in their favour (e.g. Services/heterogeneous: These platforms match buyers and providers for more complex, non-commoditized services, such as home services. Harry’s, Glossier, Casper).

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Non-Compete Networking Differentiation Lead Generation 166

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. That’s the beauty of a great content business. Great Article. off topic.

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Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity. The general rule is one business model drives the business.

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Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Networking 111

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. They have 27 business units. It’s the model and the other part that I guess I’m still a fuzzy on.

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Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

A clear understanding of your product offering, customer base, and business model is also crucial. You may want to experiment with different products, tactics, and ideas in the early stages of business. When starting up in a competitive industry like IT, you must find your differentiator. Find a niche.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Startup Early Stage Offshore 131

The Startup Magazine

MAY 8, 2020

The main eCommerce business model that the course focuses on is dropshipping. Dropshipping is a business model where a business owner sets up his own website, but–instead of stocking inventory–chooses to ship ordered products directly from a supplier’s warehouse to the customer. Dropshipping.

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eCommerce Programming Entrepreneur Advertising 130

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

However, the next evolution of the subscription commerce will become the curated subscription business model. The concept is, rather than simply sending a random assortment of products in a box, the customer tells you what their preference is and you as the business tailor each box specifically towards them. That sounds generic.

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Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review Small Business 48

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

I spent quite a bit of time studying eBay, both as a business model and as a means to capture new customers because of how much buying traffic is there. The better you meet the previous criteria (profit margin, automated, scaleable and passive), the more money you can make when it is time to sell.

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Affiliate Internet Software Review Advertising 112

Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

‘Starting a business’ really only comes down to figuring out your business idea ; doing your paperwork; and sorting out the money. Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market.

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Elevator Pitch Software Review SBA Angel Investor 166