Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) websites that are sparse and slick, Chinese users currently expect complicated, crowded and busy web pages. Unlike U.S.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game.

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Generative AI Media Artificial Inteligence Vertical 142

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. Plated is a paradigmatic example of a company that is creating hundreds of new jobs for lower-skilled workers: “remote food prep worker.” trillion. .

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. It’s critical to establish this component of your business before thinking seriously about growth. in place before you expand.

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute.

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Technical Review Egypt Morocco Russia 172

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Silicon Valley, New York). Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

New York ›. View More in New York › ›. The Skqueak That Roars: New App Combines Drawing, Audio, Images. View More in Mobile ›. New York Events ›. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Silicon Valley, New York). Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. Yet the team got the new service up and running and used this to power and grow their business for another 7 years, until they disrupted themselves again by moving aggressively to the streaming model.

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www.aaronkharris.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Tumbledowntech Random post Mobile Archive Im Aaron Harris. I recently left one of the worlds largest hedge funds, and finance in general, to launch Tutorspree. I handed out a whole bunch of business cards, and got rejected time and time again. How am I going to do that? So how did we end up succeeding? startupcto

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. I’ve already started the business modeling. Venture Financings we Discussed. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Read more: TechCrunch.

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San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

in fees is a hefty transaction fee considering company will still have legal and other fees on the financing. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

There are so many unknowns at this stage and the only known is that the business model is going to change at least once, or in the current most overused term in the Silicon Valley, there will be a "pivot". I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. The written style is very prompt and the highly practical manners.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. This can make it much more difficult to get any bank financing, new investment, and trade credit. In cases where it is truly a bridge financing (i.e. Steve Bennet.

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San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation 36

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. 5 hours ago. 3 days ago.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… New York. Loading… Business. The 20-year venture capitalist is an "angel" investor in Mr. Dreymanns new start-up, Mowingo Inc., which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. In it we explicitly state: “The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models….What

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. Finances were just one part of the story.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

The spring semester of my Entrepreneurial Finance class starts tomorrow. We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. Labels: entrepreneur , entrepreneurial finance course , venture capital.

San Jose 28

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Venture Capital 28

Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

I actually enjoy the process of pulling together a selection of materials to create a complete course on Entrepreneurial Finance. I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. This whole process got me thinking about the textbook business model.

San Jose 28

San Jose Software Review Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. 5 hours ago. 3 days ago.

Social Network 28

Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. 5 hours ago. 3 days ago.

Bootstrapping 28

Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This got me thinking about the business model that Mike Keiser has built at the resort and a lecture began to form in my head. cant wait to go back, which is clearly goal #1 in the list of critical success factors if anyone is still following the business model tangent. Labels: Bandon Dunes , business models , golf.

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Oregon San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. Labels: CFO , home security , M and A , venture capital , venture financing. Steve Bennet. at 10:22 AM. Newer Post.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Balance Sheet 28

Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. She has developed a new twist on the micro-lending concept.

San Jose 28

San Jose Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor 28

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Silicon Valley, New York). Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model.

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Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

Alex Blumberg at Internet Week in New York. This week, we hear from Alex Blumberg from Gimlet Media and the Startup Podcast in our new Bcast Bytes segment. Peter and Jonathan talked to Levi King from Creditera about why your business credit matters, and we share a few of our favorite subscription services.

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Cloud Small Business Silicon Valley Media 60

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I am not sure how this relates to venture finance or entrepreneurship, but Im sure Ill find some connection along the way. I do have one investment in a company that has developed a platform for in game mobile advertising - Greystripe. Labels: brickbreaker , gaming , mobile. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly It is helping with recruiting by leveraging my networks and experience in a particular domain.

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CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. 5 hours ago. 3 days ago.

Angel Investor 28

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor San Jose 28

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. His gut told him the opportunity might not be there in a year and he dropped out of business school to launch the venture. 5 hours ago. 3 days ago.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

The Outer Limits of Lunar Exploration Hilton F – Space sector representatives will discuss how the use of web and mobile technologies create opportunities for participation in future exploration of the Moon. Adobe product managers and evangelists will be sharing the latest on mobile development with Flash and more from Adobe Labs.

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Omaha Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Media 79

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The business environment is much more complex today, and the hopeful entrepreneur need to understand more of the environment in which they will operate. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. 5 hours ago.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43