Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

As business models rotate toward subscription services, if technical developments don’t keep pace, a crucial piece of the puzzle will be missing. Not to mention they need to align themselves with the open source communities defining them.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. While companies execute business models, startups search for a business model. (Or When the speed of how businesses operated changed forever. Consumer Internet Driving Innovation.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. 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.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Our business model nudges us slightly toward the sound, safe (stodgy?) We work with clients to get them off the ground with a platform to build their business. As the technical partner, we want to be real partners in the business-making sure the technology helps achieve the business objectives.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Furthermore, your vision also needs to be relatable to another business model that investors have seen be successful. If your vision isn’t scalable enough to potentially return their fund within a 4–7 year timeframe, it’s not a big enough vision. Last, but in no way least, Relationship : You are known to the investor. Don’t pitch.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Gigs with Benefits: The gig economy will evolve from its current exploitative business model. Personal Operating Systems Will Arrive: Software systems will organise our personal lives. They will owned by the individuals (rather than a company), powered by open source software and backed up by machine learning.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A company will decide what operations are best to keep in-house while outsourcing those that it can “afford” to. Today, eCommerce companies can scale up faster than almost any other consumer business model. The appealing qualities of capital efficiency and high scale up are actually inherent to eCommerce companies.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The issue may also lie in the history of open source apps and software: the beginning of the internet may have championed collaborative free tech, but what exists now is not free and, I would argue, is less than virtuous. Nothing is Free. Policy Lagging Behind Awareness. Paid email services such as HEY!

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. On the other hand, it’s important to consider the realities of today’s business environment. If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? We made an image browser with thumbnail previews so you didn't have to open each file individually to see what it was. (In In the 90's, y'all, before that was built into all the operating systems!)

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

Open source, permissionless code. Traditional games operate as walled gardens. With new games come new in-game mechanics and business models. Blockchain games offer a level of tangibility that has not been possible since the era of owning physical cartridges. This prevents a demise similar to that of FarmVille 1.0.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. At some level nearly all tech entrepreneurs are evangelizing something… a new technology, a new business model, a new brand. The Missionary.

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readwrite.com

JANUARY 23, 2013

As the author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database, and one of the founders of the community-developed branch of the MySQL database, MariaDB , his take on Big Data bucks the conventional wisdom that large-scale data must abandon SQL databases. What do you think about this Cloudera announcement ? Dmitry Sotnikov.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2016

You are therefore forced to build some other competitive advantage into your business. For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? It’s still possible, and occasionally advisable, to operate in secret.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. As a result, we carefully choose to invest in good brands and operators that we believe can execute on their plan with the help of a reliable and flexible capital partner. Also see Why I Invested in SparkToro.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2020

The insurance companies operate a highly competitive environment in which retail and corporate customers get the best value for money and superior online experience. It disrupts current power imbalances and open industry to the broader retail sector. Blockchain tech is a decentralized and open source.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 18, 2012

Software prices are dropping and the importance of local operating systems and having locally installed productivity software is declining which makes the future for Microsoft’s consumers software a challenging one. The interesting question is how challenging.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

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. And a very small percentage are focused on innovation.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

We are thrilled to welcome Ajay Sudan , who brings with him 15 years of operating experience including six years at Palantir where he was responsible for launching several new businesses, including their healthcare business, which he grew to $100M+ in sales.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

These products encourage all individuals to participate in and have a point of view on investing, rather than operating under the assumption that it’s strictly for the wealthy. This is similar to the Stripe models launched this month. So, while it may seem like SMB online lending has been collapsing, it’s really being reborn.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Applicaster helps content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile broadcast experiences. Our mission is to help content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile experiences.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. Who funds the operating costs?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 120

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. The only thing that matters is how good your product is.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Some startups die because their business model is platform-dependant. All technology depends on "platforms" — operating systems, browsers, libraries, even pre-existing customer prejudices. WordPress itself is open source; Automattic (the company behind WordPress) couldn't kill off this community if they tried.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Essentially by cutting as much of the supply chain as possible, and lowering the cost of doing business (i.e. by operating online). I don’t exactly remember today how I thought about the Sam’s Club concept , but maybe because our family had shopped there for years it had come to mind among the mix of various other business models.

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