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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy.

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Leadership and CEO Succession

Reid Hoffman

These innovations are impactful, but there are also ample opportunities to innovate purely on the business model. That’s a statement of business innovation, not technological innovation. I helped establish the business model. But for some companies the secret sauce might be engineering or finance.

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The Most Effective Early-Stage Growth Strategies for Emerging Businesses

ReadWriteStart

Growing a business is always challenging, but it’s often the hardest in the earliest stages of development. You’ll be operating with limited resources, limited knowledge, and quite possibly, a business model poised to change in the immediate future. Each link you build serves as a transmission route for new visitors.

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As a new independent angel investor, how will I find new companies to invest in?

Gust

The two sites you mentioned are both secondary listing services, for later stage companies. Most are somewhere in between, focusing primarily on early-stage, high-growth companies with scalable business models. There are hundreds of them, with at least one in every state.

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How to Launch Your Own Startup Part 4 (money, culture and becoming a manager)

The Next Web

Most first-time entrepreneurs write huge business plans, instead of creating a short pitch-deck. Focus on building a prototype, test your business model and create a clear strategy to become a sustainable and scaleable business fast. I hired very junior people, many directly from college, or from their first jobs.

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SSEBITDA – A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is the fourth article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap , COC: a new metric for cancellations , and The mistake of 1/c in LTV. Its tough for a growing SaaS business to ascertain whether or not it’s truly profitable. Here’s a way to do it.

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You’ll Be Dead Soon – Carpe Diem

Steve Blank

Bob had taken to heart the business model canvas and Customer Development lessons. After a demo and lunch, the VC (who normally did later stage deals) wrote my ex student a check for a seed round. When I pressed Bob on this he admitted, “No I guess my engineers aren’t very good. Life couldn’t be better.