ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana, are experienced IT professional with 15 years of experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. Incubator photo from Geograph.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Malaysia Entrepreneur 128

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Before I end, let me also point you to an interview we're running on my blog with Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList , which you may find enlightening. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

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India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

While the basic premise is compelling, and I am very interested in entrepreneurship opportunities in this area, the business model is flawed. The 1M/1M premium program offers entrepreneurs access to on-demand educational, business development and incubation resources and strategy discussions with me for $1,000 per year.

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India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation. My assessment is that this is a good company that should be able to raise money at this point.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Each of our teams in this class followed the canonical Lean model: Articulate your hypotheses using the business model canvas. Each week the teams got out of the classroom and talked to 10-15 customers, testing a new part of the business model canvas. If you can’t see the video click here.

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Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Board Control.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

During today's roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs and also had a segment on our yearlong engagement with incubators around the world. The 1M/1M team has invested significant resources to engage with and understand the challenges of the Incubator industry around the globe.

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Incubator San Jose Silicon Valley India 114

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 321

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It’s now been over 3 years since the team has left my classroom and I thought I’d share with you what the two founders, Jorge Heraud and Lee Redden, learned then and what they’re doing now. Like all great Silicon Valley companies they started with a technology and guessed who the customers will be.

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Lean Silicon Valley Customer Development Incubator 272

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. The Free Rider Problem.

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Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 271

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I detected a major flaw in Kiran's business model assumption. She is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and strategy consultant who writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is the author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

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.

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San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).

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Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Silicon Valley Angel Investor 274

ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2012

After several years spent watching angels, super angels and incubators move in on their turf, VCs are flexing back. The survey, by Palo Alto law firm Dorsey & Whitney , polled 336 startup CEOs and founders around the country and found a big jump from two years ago in investment by VCs. That’s part of the explanation. from 75.8%

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Incubator Startup 115

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Each of our teams in this class followed the canonical Lean model: Articulate your hypotheses using the business model canvas. Each week the teams got out of the classroom and talked to 10-15 customers, testing a new part of the business model canvas. If you can’t see the video click here.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

While finding product-market fit is important, getting the rest of the business model right is the difference between and a great demo and a great business. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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Cofounder DC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. They are anyone who runs his/her own business. They work as hard as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

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Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization purposes? Please use the comments below to give your thoughts and analyses on why you think Twitter is not using the affiliate business model to monetize its immense traffic. This is a question I would like to address to you guys as well. Don't miss it!

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Affiliate India Nevada Silicon Valley 117

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. My sense is the market is not as broad, and most small businesses do not hire very actively. You can register for upcoming roundtables here.

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Acquisition SEO San Francisco India 115

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

The business is very different in London, and my feedback was that investors want a repeatable business model. For that to happen, he needs to show investors how his India model scales, without introducing a random London factor in the business. Ashish wants to raise money and scale rapidly.

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India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Soren's answer is ambiguous, even though his value proposition and business model are relatively clear and well thought through. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Again, the issue of for-profit versus nonprofit came up. Who funds the solar panels? Who funds the operating costs?

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Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

Also, an Incubation Radar profile on CrowdEngineering explains more about this very, very cool company doing crowdsourced customer support. Persistent is breaking out of the mold of labor arbitrage, and looking at new and exciting business models.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

I knew there was a Friday night poker game in Silicon Valley where all the software pioneers were getting to know each other and helping shape the industry. The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle. Deals were getting done there.

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Atlanta Albuquerque Incubator Austin 48

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It It would have been a lot more challenging to create a business like this up there," OBrien says. Theres also eHow parent Demand Media, streaming video site Hulu, car-shopping site TrueCar and one dominant player from Silicon Valley: Google.

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Los Angeles San Francisco Southern California Silicon Valley 87

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. If you have a reputation for cutting corners, not treating employees or partners right, it will become very difficult to do business. ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 19, 2009. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

He’s working to get his agency to adopt Lean and the Horizon 1, 2, and 3 innovation language (Horizon 1 executes current business models, Horizon 2 extends current business models and Horizon 3 searches for new business models ) and was now building a Lean innovation pipeline created out of my I-Corps/Lean LaunchPad classes.

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Lean Entrepreneur Business Model Silicon Valley 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. In my experience, a good business plan should not be a book, or a one-pager. You can’t keep all these in your head.

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Silicon Valley Angel Investor LLC Incubator 286

YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

Rules when followed will give you access to the Silicon Valley world, where you can wear shorts and slippers to work. Look out if they have received funding: Seed funding – means they are just starting out = less people in the company = higher likelihood of working closely with the founder. Be a founder of something.

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Hiring Startup Salary Technical Review 100

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we started off by discussing the pre-incubation procedure we are recommending with audience members from different parts of the world. This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. About Sramana Mitra.

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Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator 105

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

My goal is to some day get an honorary degree for kicking ass in business. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. If you’re looking to find / earn a technical co-founder then Andrew’s article is the best read.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Innovation doesn’t always make you a winner in business. In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. Yet only a few of these get funded, and even fewer become dominant players in their chosen space.

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Silicon Valley Differentiation Angel Investor Incubator 136

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Techcrunch called it one of the " most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions I’ve ever seen " I met with the founders of CardMunch several months ago when they were out raising their Series Seed round. I liked the founders (Bowei and Sid) a lot more than the business.

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Acquisition San Jose Angel Investor IPO 31

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Stories/myths – stories are about how founders/employees get over obstacles, win new orders… Heroes – what gets rewarded and celebrated, how do you become a hero in the organization? The values and basic beliefs of working in this crazy startup were embodied in the phrase that we were, “The Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.”

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Startup Silicon Valley Incubator Matching 120

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Nir is contemplating various different business models and channel options, all the way from Freemium B-to-C to white labeling the solution for universities and colleges. I advised him to focus on the for-profit colleges and business schools in India and sell them a white label solution, hence a B-to-B business model.

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Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. In addition to the first prize, he was also given office space at the Plug and Play incubator for the summer and get to spend his days with other entrepreneurs and investors.

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San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 28