Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A well-constructed business model is a foundational element of a business plan and strategy. Business models can vary significantly across industries and businesses, reflecting each enterprise's unique characteristics and goals. Thanks to Jordan Adair, ShirtMax ! #2- Thanks to Rodney Warner, Connective ! #3-

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Until now, to succeed in search companies needed two things: 1) an index of the web 2) an algorithm to organise the results. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.

Generative AI 174

Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

While you are working away on your business plan, looking for ways to raise capital, finding the right people to hire, etc., But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Things snowballed from there.”.

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Cofounder Founder Startup Bootstrapping 164

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 219

Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

The startups and the teaching team crafted a challenge for the kids to tackle using the Customer Development methodology, Lean Launchpad tools and the business model canvas. Knowing they had 3 weeks before presenting to the company co-founders, the kids felt intensity like no traditional classroom could generate.

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Lean Customer Development Startup Silicon Valley 334

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.).

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.

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Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2011

Max and his team built a website called the Startup Genome Compass (their benchmarking web site) that allows an Internet startup to evaluate their business performance. The Startup Genome Compass uses a hybrid “Stage and Type&# model that describes how startups progress through their business development lifecycle.

Software Review 292

Software Review Early Stage Technical Review Startup 292

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. Business Plan Versus Business Models. Where did the idea that startups write business plans come from? A simple way to think about it is that in a startup no business plan survives first contact with customers. What did you build/do?

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Business Plan Business Model Customer Development Deal Flow 312

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. Rick Mac Gillis is the Founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , a service connecting high-quality clients with high-quality contractors.

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Hiring Software Review Startup API 113

SoCal CTO

APRIL 23, 2010

How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup

CTO Hire 219

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2017

Varsha not only invests but also provides operating and strategic advice based on her experiences as a former founder and operating executive. Sam Decker is the founder of Mass Relevance, Clearhead and Mashbox so he is in the perfect position to help entrepreneurs. Mark Andreessen. Sam Decker.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Buzzwords like data science, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics are being used by big companies with the ability to invest.

Artificial Inteligence 164

Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

Up and Running

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Bruce Carr, left, of Web Ninja. Are you ready to start your business this year? Sometimes it can help to hear from small business founders who were able to breathe life into their business idea and make it go. These four founders shared their success stories with our LivePlan team over the past year.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

That’s because obtaining a pre-money valuation for a concept level technology company in excess of $1 million is difficult, particularly for a startup founder without a proven track record. By contrast, obtaining a pre-money valuation of $5 million for a business with a new viable product and even very minimal sales is somewhat reasonable.

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Private Equity Pre-Money Valuation Equity Startup 94

VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Similarly, Grapevine strives to eliminate scheduling issues and cheekily open its landing web page with the sentence “Schedule fewer Zoom meetings.” We are taking the screen sharing experience to the next level, so that collaboration doesn’t get in the way of doing great work,” writes CEO and founder Tom Medema.

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Vertical Video Technical Review Europe 148

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. These innovations do not require change in a company’s existing business model.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product?

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire NDA Technical Review 264

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

I’ve spent more than four decades founding, coaching, teaching and investing in startups, and nothing breaks my heart more than meeting a starry-eyed founder who says “we’re almost ready to show it to people.” The “it” is a physical or web product they’ve often been locked-down, pounding away at, for many weeks. What’s the point?

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Startup Cofounder Customer Development Viral 332

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2011

When should a company should focus on growth only, ignoring the business model and revenue? This episode was expertly co-hosted by Joshua Baer , founder of OtherInbox , progenitor of Capital Factory , angel investor , and previous founder of SKYLIST and UnsubCentral, both sold.

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Cofounder Angel Investor Hosting Software Review 226

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

2- Yes, to build a customer-centric business model Photo Credit: David Brewer We based and built it around the idea that our industry could, and should do better and that was the model that we were going to implement that idea as our core objective. Thanks to David Walsh, SEO Web Logistics ! #12-

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

If you’re a Web-based startup, for example, show me how many unique visitors you think you can get in the beginning, and what you’re using for an estimated conversion rate (buyers to browsers). And it’s surprising how few startup founders think in those terms. Good founders will have ideas about all of these at a fine grain.

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Metrics Startup Retention Software Developers 159

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements. Whatever the product and business model, entrepreneurs must be prepared to build critical momentum.

Framework 127

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 127

thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Collis Taeed 16th March Business Models 9 Comments One of the best sources of information on startups is the obscenely talented Paul Graham who has written a wealth of essays on the subject.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2017

by Isaac Kohen, founder and CEO of Teramind. You’re doing 20 things at once trying to keep your business going. With everything it takes to get your business off the ground, or maintain it, keeping track of cybersecurity can be tough. John quickly complies, he clicks the link and is sent to a web form.

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LLC Technical Review Analytics Security 150

VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

make a copy of this Google doc template of the Business Model Canvas to re-jig who your users, collaborators, channels and business model(s). This also applies to partners – whether it means co-founders or other businesses and partners you come in contact with.

Engineer 145

Engineer Technical Review Software Review Startup 145

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. While there are 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access, 74% of Chinese Internet users make less than $500/month and are students, blue-collar workers or jobless.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

For the next few years we collaborated on several co-investments and what ultimately attracted us to Guy’s new company (along with co-founders Danny Grander and Assaf Hefetz), was their bold vision to create a new platform for securing open source components with a dev-first focus. Dev first business model with budget from security? —?we

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Open Source Security Cofounder Software Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. This is called “validating the business model.”

Intellectual Property 249

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements. Whatever the product and business model, entrepreneurs must be prepared to build critical momentum.

Framework 113

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." But never forget that traction is necessary, but may not be sufficient, to lower the risk perception of investors, and assure an investment.

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Algorithm Metrics Viral Venture Capital 264

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The cloud services model requires the developer to continually meet the changing needs of the client, or they are free to move on. With the right partnership in both platform functionality and allied business models, you may find that “buying to build” may produce the winning combination.

Iowa 113

Iowa Investment Bankers Cloud Software Review 113

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How Small Businesses Can Compete with Big Business – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: mor.sl | crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

Social Media 100

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model. Learn how to put together a business model , not a business plan. They set up and keep the class web site updated. Class Logistics.

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Business Model Silicon Valley California Engineer 226

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More founders reject VC money | Crain’s New York Business – [link]. 5 Things Founders Shouldn’t Skimp On – [link]. ” – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2012

As a Silicon Valley attorney and founder of technology incubator StartWorks , Montgomery has participated in many tech startups and has a natural interest in what makes them succeed. The 3 Types of Intelligence John B. Montgomery explores this concept in depth in his new book, Great From the Start: How Conscious Corporations Attract Success.

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Founder Silicon Valley Startup Incubator 65

ReadWriteStart

JULY 9, 2023

At the same time, startups are indeed exciting and highly satisfying for their founders. A founder needs certain skills and knowledge. They impact fundraising, hiring, intellectual property rights and patents, and many more things around starting and running a business. A good founder is always a good communicator.

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Intellectual Property Startup Burn Rate Metrics 122