Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. In general, banks won’t give you a loan until the business is cash-flow positive, no matter what the future potential. Join a startup incubator.

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Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

Seed money can range from a relatively modest sum to a sizeable one, depending not only on the nature of the startup, the sector in which it will operate, and any other pertinent business aspects. Seed venture capital firms can make more significant follow-on investments to keep or increase their equity stake in the company.

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Seed Stage Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence 126

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Startup Accelerators: Startup Sauna and Vigo which includes Lifeline Ventures , KoppiCatch , and Veturi. Business Angels: FiBAn , Sitra. Venture Capital: FVCA , NextIt Ventures , Primus Ventures , Open Ocean Capital , Connor VC , and Inventure. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 325

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to a recent Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next. And they also recognize that simply exploiting their existing assets, capabilities, and business models is insufficient for long-term survival.

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Incubator Lean Agile Business Model 408

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

According to my experience and a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. In general, banks won’t give you a loan until the business is cash-flow positive, no matter what the future potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Join a startup incubator. In reality, the financing valley of death tests the commitment, determination, and problem solving ability of every entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge. The country needs to figure out a long term privatization strategy for Venture investing. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 327

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. Incubators and Accelerators.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Commercial product prototypes.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Incubator Government 256

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Commercial product prototypes.

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Early Stage Angel Investor Incubator Government 412

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Equity Startup Small Business Administration SBA 266

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Venture Capital innovation people. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. After three years of evangelizing, I am very pleased to see success cases emerging in Japan by following Customer Development Model. ————-.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We make a majority of our investments in those sectors and prioritize proven business models. 645 Ventures: A New Era of Venture Capital Investing Arena Growth Partners We help great leaders build great businesses. For most of us, we have been the only woman partner or senior executive in our firm.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

9-to-5 Venture Capital. It's hard enough to pick which existing companies with known business models to aid. Yet Tekes does that and is trying to act like a government-run Venture Capital firm. steve blank in finland sept 2011 View more documents from steve blank.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 436

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. First the markets favor capital efficiency over R&D.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2012

But all the press also reinforces the feeling that every startup needs to go through an incubator in order to succeed. Not only do we need to come up with a great idea, we have to make sure that it’s something that works for an incubator. There Is Value in Incubators. That can be incredibly frustrating for startup entrepreneurs.

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Incubator Atlanta Startup Bootstrapping 141

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

1) Corporate Venture Capital. Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. Some corporations emulate this model by creating their own wholly-owned VC entities, typically with one LP: the corporate balance sheet. 4) Accelerators.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2023

Start-up incubators, accelerators, and venture capital firms are sprouting nationwide, nurturing aspiring entrepreneurs with vital resources, mentorship, and funding opportunities. Korea’s ground-breaking advancements span various sectors, including AI , biotech, e-commerce, fintech, and gaming.

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Global Government Incubator Venture Capital 135

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. Microeconomics.

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? Next comes the topic of angels.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. No ambiguity. Clarity is good.

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Sacramento Framework Customer Development Lean 308

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Here are a bunch of things I don''t do: I won''t do office hours anymore at incubators and accelerators. It skips the whole vetting process for me--so I wind up giving time to a bunch of companies whose business model I might find problematic from the get go. Venture Capital & Technology'

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Venture Capital Finance Chicago 126

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In fact, research by Fundable shows that less than one percent of all startups are funded by venture capital and angel investors. You need a business degree to start a venture today. The real value of a college education is in learning how to learn, since markets and business models are changing so fast.

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Incubator Angel Investor Dilution Equity 180

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. Ask customers how they would use your product – friends and family don’t count for this purpose.

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. A micro venture capital firm. A “genesis” venture capital round.

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Seed Stage Finance Early Stage Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Business Model Issues. Venture Capital Issues. Early stage Venture Capital for medical device startups has dried up. The amount of capital being invested in new device companies is at an 11 year low. Business Model Issues. Venture Capital.

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Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 296

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Their capital needs are low at the front end.

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Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 260

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Aggregator Curation Widget Angel Investor 170

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

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 262

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Small Business Administration 283