Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 12, 2019
Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Unfortunately, even today, building a good product doesn’t guarantee you a business. Unanticipated pivots, quality write-offs, and shrinkage.
ReadWriteStart
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Oftentimes, new startups are inclined to cut costs that seem superfluous or unnecessary for the core business model to function. But when you cut something that is essential in business — it is problematic; digital marketing is the best way for a startup to increase brand awareness and attract new paying customers.
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David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Similarly, when Flexible VC structures are based off of the founder’s own compensation (often via salary or dividends), investors are specifically tying their returns to the financial success of the founder.
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? No, because Etsy has built a marketplace ; the presence of buyers and sellers is their primary asset.
www.forentrepreneurs.com
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. However there is a lot of value in looking at these same metrics for all other businesses.
Andrew Payne
FEBRUARY 16, 2013
Expensive software stacks, primitive tools, million dollar server farms, and 50+ person development teams have given way to free, open source, high-quality tools, small teams, and rentable infrastructure. Now, many companies use software to enable other services and business models.
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, Any additional funds they take out of the business are considered dividends.
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