David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. 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. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

business model and team. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. Here are the ingredients: Business model : This is actually the most important ingredient of the five. There is usually a way. What is a good team?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

But don’t lose sight of the fact that we’re already in the midst of a deadly global epidemic. Complete our product pilot with our new partners, Grupo Bimbo, in designing a sweetener of the future for the baked goods industry. At least 2.8 million people will die this year as a result of being overweight or obese.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. It is related to business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

1 – Business Model. Our business is unique because our business model addresses 2 major shifts in the fashion industry today: 1) the rise of fast fashion and its affect on major more traditional fashion companies like Gap, J. Photo Credit: Stefanie Tacata. crew, Aeropostale, etc. 14 – Desired Changes.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

These are but some of the global startups who are gunning to transform an industry that is, quite frankly, in desperate need of a shake-up. It simply would not work on a global scale. They know everything about their customer (thanks, big data) and have the ability to customize every part of the business for efficiency. .

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 2) Market .

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Hong Kong-based Lots of Buttons beat out 19 other impressive (mostly Asia-based) startups with a business model that revolves around buttons. In fact the e-commerce site aims to be the world’s largest online crafts store, seeking to expand to other craft verticals pending profitability or an angel investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Anish Acharya , a16z fintech general partner In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it There’s a popular narrative that evil investment bankers are intentionally underpricing traditional IPOs to steal from companies, lining banker pockets and those of their fatcat Wall Street clients. But most of all, it will benefit us as consumers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020? We are proud to be a Baltimore-based company with global reach.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In fact, the food we waste is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions, so wasting less food presents a key opportunity to address climate change. Through being a ReFED Global Innovator , I have the opportunity to partner with like-minded entrepreneurs and track the latest innovations as part of the ReFED network.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Winding Tree drives the development of open source protocols for the travel industry, starting with ORG.ID, a global registry of business entities that streamlines access to APIs in an automated and secure way without the need for third parties.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

“Going forward, our strategy will focus on creating a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most.” And which global company wouldn’t want to reach customers around the globe? Colour me skeptical.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. I am a business person, not a technologist. A full-time business partner is definitely not required at this point in the company's life.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. It’s the model of leadership has evolved, you know? Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

was OK a few months ago, the hurdle is now higher and should be close to CAC>1 – Keep only reps making quota and cut marketing activities with lower ROI Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) >0 – Adjust operations, RD and GA to make your business model profitable 3. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Post a Comment.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

The time they spend with customers is usually limited to transactional core products sales, generating lower margins – The resource allocation is not always matching the opportunity (geography, customer segment, vertical.) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

While many of these companies I reference were working on horizontal, platform technologies, I recently have seen more investment opportunities in vertical “applied AI” Data experts, combined with domain experts, are forming companies to tackle applications that utilize machine learning as core elements of their product.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Both of us founders and our partners at Polyient Labs have strong backgrounds in blockchain and crypto. With three billion people on the planet who don’t have access to sophisticated banking services, they’re unable to fully participate in our global economy. Luckily, that’s where my partner [ Crystal Houston ] shines.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

While many of these companies I reference were working on horizontal, platform technologies, I recently have seen more investment opportunities in vertical “applied AI” Data experts, combined with domain experts, are forming companies to tackle applications that utilize machine learning as core elements of their product.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). This is one of my favorite marketplace business model “tweaks.” As Jeff Bezos is fond of saying, “ your margin is my opportunity.”.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. I have enough sense at 46 to have 2 business partners that are in their 60s and one of them is our CEO.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Easy question to answer, and free with Compete (remember, this is US visits only) or SimilarWeb (global traffic). Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Or is this a gap in their business approach they should fix in some other way?

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