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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

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. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Abhijit foresees primarily a technology licensing business model whereby device vendors would be paying royalty per handset or tablet.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. Advertising.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. We identify great innovative companies with solid business models and help them determine the right growth path for their businesses.

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Welcome to the Era of Decentralization

Hippoland

And it was a big change in business models. Existing software engineers and tech entrepreneurs needed to retool both their skills as well as their way thinking about how software should be set up and software business models. Even the business models were still the same. (i.e.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

On a more serious note, Gordon has a laundry list of founder qualities or experiences that will pique his curiosity: “Have a resume I envy and admire; make a significant contribution at a company I am fascinated by; write a great book or make a great game or TV show; [develop] significant software engineering experience and/or education.&#

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.