Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 28, 2023

To recap the year, here are some of 2023’s biggest themes for Version One: 1) Building in AI While still early in the AI wave, we’re seeing not only technological innovation but also business model transformation. When this happens, it creates an extremely beneficial environment for incumbents.

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Technical Review India Canada Early Stage 73

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. Engineering continually felt overwhelmed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning. Sloan transformed corporate management into a real profession, and its stellar example was the continuous and relentless execution of the GM business model (until its collapse 50 years later). Days of Futures Past for Tesla.

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Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

According to my experience and a this Motley Fool article, the challenge is very real, with around half of all new businesses no longer existing after five years. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Obtaining a competitive advantage while improving consistency and quality ensures that the supply chain will soon embrace flexible business models and become more efficient. Each of these conditions then helps these companies find new and better clients while filling each business’s unique needs. from several investors.

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Germany San Jose Technical Review India 175

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 127

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Unlike small business entrepreneurs, their interest is not in earning a living but rather in creating equity in a company that eventually will become publicly traded or acquired, generating a multi-million-dollar payoff. Their job is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They hire the best and the brightest.

Government 335

Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

—— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Ironically one of the things that’s holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 324

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2017

Software engineer, entrepreneur and investor Mark Andreessen has a varied technical background that involved developing the world’s first ever web browser, Mosaic, and founding a number of software companies which he later sold for a large profit. Mark Andreessen. Angel Investors Understand the Difficulties Startups Face.

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Angel Investor Entrepreneur Software Engineering Operations 208

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. Where is it going?

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations. It starts with having a vision and an ability to get the message across in your elevator pitch, in a written business plan and one-on-one with potential investors. Team members have investor relationships.

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Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Software Review 152

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. The founders.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to a recent Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It’s the engine that has powered companies including Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. As Hoffman has put it, if starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling a plane on the way down, scaling is like “assembling that plane faster then strapping on and igniting a set of jet engines, while still building the wings.”

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Lean Las Vegas Cofounder Startup 103

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta.

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Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. It might be its most important. ———-. Cold War Spin Outs.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app. Business to Consumer (B2C) – It is the most common type of business model. Tactics like influencer marketing, organizing business events, publishing press releases, and search engine optimization (SEO) must be implemented.

Technical Review 163

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

Followers of the Customer Development process know that you can’t start selling until you have transformed product, customer and other hypotheses into a validated business model and sales roadmap. Short-circuiting that process is a major “foul” that often leads to premature business models and suboptimal sales results.).

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Customer Development Developer Customer South America 235

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first, the notion of the “ ambidextrous organization ” from O’Reilly and Tushman , posits that companies that want to do continuous innovation need to execute their core business model while innovating in parallel. Horizon 1 activities support existing business models. Horizon 1 is the company’s core business.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Engineering Translational Technology Center. Stony Brook University Calverton Business Incubator. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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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.

Software Review 114

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 114

Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

After seeing the process work so well for scientists and engineers in the NSF, we hypothesized that we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently. identify financing vehicles before you need them. It’s open to NIH SBIR/STTR Phase 1 grantees.

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Lean SBIR Intellectual Property Customer Development 269

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s not an HR policy or a perk; it’s our actual business model. As someone who works in finance, specifically investments, technology is constantly growing and becoming a huge part of how finance and investments work. Thanks to Ziga Breznik, Public Finance International ! #20- Photo Credit: Ozzi Jarvinen.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Financing Next Generation Transport Solutions : Platforms and product offerings that allow customers faster and easier vehicle access through ownership or other means, and address new technologies such as automation, electromobility, and connectivity.

North Carolina 107

North Carolina Startup Technical Review Programming 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Most technologists have little interest in the mechanics of starting and building a business. That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. Outside investors are most interested in scaling a proven business model, not research and development.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Bootstrapping 120

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In healthcare it can be used to diagnose diseases earlier, in finance it can identify fraud, in retail, it can optimize stock levels and predict consumer trends, in agriculture it can optimize crop yields by monitoring conditions and predicting weather patterns. 18- Business models for influencer marketing.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Technology Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 105

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

The rub is that a startup likely has the ideas to take it straight to the top, but it’s also likely that the company lacks the business skills to make it truly successful. A talented group of specialists including engineers, designers, financial analysts, and lawyers are assigned to develop various facets of the company’s framework.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Incubator Asia 100

Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Igor Balamut is providing services as a Senior Symfony PHP Engineer at Transformify, a Workforce & Vendor Management System. So, in the modern world, SaaS is the right option for many innovative business models. Igor, what do you think about the technology empowering vendor management systems ( VMS)? It sounds good !

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Management Technical Review API Software Review 52