Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. Ramen-profitable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Steve is also the author of Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. But I, what I wanna do in the a book is tell entrepreneurs, you can't just dive into it.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

It impacts the pace at which businesses grow and it remains interesting to see trends that will emerge from some of these technologies. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the technologies that will have the biggest impact on technology and here are the responses. #1 1 – The Ethics of Digital Privacy.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right business partner. You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3%

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Thus, let’s start this discussion by defining the global crisis caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19 , so that we can look forward to finding the opportunity in the crisis. What this means is that the global economy has been paused while we wait for the virus to burn itself out. .” – Albert Einstein.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Government-led programs like the Startup Visa Program and the Global Talent Stream are proving successful in attracting quality talent. With the Global Talent Stream, for instance, the country has reduced visa-processing times from 10 months to two weeks for those with a background in IT or STEM-related fields.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

That’s the mission driving products like Hemafuse , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020. Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. and Indian companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. LetsGiftIt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

As operators of an accelerator—and founders in our own right—Ben and I had constantly struggled with what the “right” numbers are for a business. We decided to find out, and talked with around 130 founders, entrepreneurs, investors and analysts. We often tell founders that a business plan is nonsense.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. So why do inexperienced (as entrepreneurs), ultra-skilled CTOs fall into the trap of engaging a business partner too early? Camaraderie?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

My investor meetings would be long and scattered because my business’s mission was. I’d hear feedback on my pitch presentation that made me want to crawl up and die: “You need to map your product development with your market development.”. It alleviates the struggles you’ve experienced as an entrepreneur.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

High-end sunglass distributors have built a multi-billion dollar business model on one very simple life truth: you will lose your sunglasses. I went to Greece to meet my father — a successful entrepreneur in his own right — for the first time. Aristotle began to investigate business opportunities. “My

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. You have to know your business model. Most startups arent so fortunate.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? If you’re a young entrepreneur, than congrats!

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. hkvn liked this.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

By the 1920’s, in the Age of the Automobile and Oil, large companies sought to control the new product development process. By the 1950’s Shumpeter observed that in-house R&D had replaced the inventor-entrepreneur. See here for background on horizons.).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of the readings for this class session included What The Machine Learning Value Chain Means For Geopolitics , How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape The Global Order, An Understanding Of Ai’s Limitations Is Starting To Sink In , and The Panopticon Is Already Here. One product at a time wasn’t going to change the trajectory of the DOD.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Over the last ten years, entrepreneurs began to understand that startups were not simply smaller versions of large companies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. The founders. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

From coast to coast, evidence of democratic principles and practices are front and center, playing out everywhere from small town hall meetings to global front page news. Yet, entrepreneurs in the US – who are drivers of this change – are subjected to exorbitant cost models of production, creating a lag in innovation.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. An additional list of business resources for startups is available here. Great for visualizing work of product development. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Acunote â??

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