Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units. a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The corollary for an enterprise is: A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Today she is operating at a 30,000 feet level, and I am concerned that unless she gets down to earth and develops more granular and specific strategies, she will not get anywhere. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

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. It's hard enough to pick which existing companies with known business models to aid. And they should give themselves a 5-10 year plan to do so.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Giving stuff for free is a dangerous game, and it is difficult to sustain operations that have large numbers of free users. You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. Please remember, free is not a business model. He asked me if he should offer the app for free to get more customers.

Business Model 122

Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the science/technology, and the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

San Diego 261

San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They were trying to keep up with providing the core services necessary to run the current business and at the same time deal with a flood of well-meaning but uncoordinated ideas about new features, technologies and innovations coming at them from all directions. Use Cases/ Concept of Operations. An Innovation Process and Pipeline.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” LESSON #2: Forget innovation.

Lean 245

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators).

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2015

This operating system worked well through the better part of nine centuries, but the quality revolution, entrepreneurial revolution, and information technology revolution create a vastly different world from the one mid-20 th century. The dirty little secret of university finance is that undergraduate tuition fees subsidize faculty research.

Illinois 100

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2012

But for the past twelve months, we’ve been coming at fundraising from all angles in order to finance our own business as well as advise our nonprofit clients in fundraising. As we continue to grow our own company, we’re continually seeking new opportunities to raise funds outside of our general sales operation.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

First up, Manoj Dharap presented EzeeBank , a core banking solution for credit co-operative societies. He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model. Here are the companies that pitched at the roundtable.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. Usually, these investors have the resources and the medical expertise to validate your business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. When I was graduated from university in 1991 it was only the really committed who eschewed the corporate world for creating tech startup businesses. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies. The Exit Problem. And the future?

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Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

Third, when you have PMF and growth, and you find yourself needing to really build a repeatable business model. Find good financing partners. You want to find financing partners who help you in the situations described above, don’t become yet another impediment. Second, when you do have PMF, but growth starts to stall.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I'm doing a new academic experiment now - an incubator at Menlo College where we are bringing the start-ups to campus and giving the students an opportunity to see how they develop and work as interns. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Ludi, Thanks for sharing your experience.

San Jose 43

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It is a process that operates with speed and urgency. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.). Prioritization : Once a list of innovation ideas has been refined by curation, it needs to be prioritized using the McKinsey Three Horizons Model.

Lean 212

Lean SBIR Incubator Curation 212

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In our case, we’re local in over 200 countries with operations in basically every city on the planet. For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter and Jonathan discuss startup incubators, and our guest Caroline talks to us about the “F” word and 10 reasons why startups fail. Startup Incubators – (2:13). Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. He’s helped a lot of small businesses succeed.

Incubator 60

Incubator Email Startup Oregon 60

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Over the last 15 months his staff got innovation teams operating with speed and urgency. His organization had a corporate incubator for disruptive ( horizon 3 ) experiments and provided innovation support for his company’s operating divisions for process and business model innovations ( Horizon 1 and 2.)

Finance 226

Finance Lean Metrics Programming 226

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2015

Finance, HR, Branding, Legal, you name it, everyone in a division or corporate staff has an excuse for why we can’t do something, and everyone has the power to say no and no urgency to make a change.”. Over the last 9 months his staff got innovation teams operating with speed and urgency. Our CEO is behind the program. Get to Yes.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It was already lore that the founders had pivoted from simply building an entire computer that fit on a single-circuit board with a newfangled Intel microprocessor to selling complete desktop workstations with an operating system and office applications (the precursor to the PC) to other computer companies. You can hack the culture.

Startup 120

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. This led to an explosion in startups. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Don’t be forced down, insulted or negotiated into a crappy investment ever.&#

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. A few, like John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Don Valentine at Sequoia, had operating experience in a large tech company.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

How are user-generated reviews changing how restaurants operate and how we eat? 11:00 AM: Why You Aren’t Done Yet Ballroom A – The deadline is looming, you’ve tweeted how busy you are four times this week, and yet you just can’t get the project wrapped up and out the door. Gary Vee knows wine.

Omaha 79

Omaha Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Media 79

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? The former focussed on biz.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. model legal documents. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Customer service. Get Satisfaction.

Software Review 53

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. Does your business touch potential voters? Invest in business models that otherwise could not access VC.

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