Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

As the company goes from searching for a business model to growth , only then will they bring in a new “professional” management team to scale the company (along with a business development executive to search for an acquirer) or prepare for an IPO. The minute you take money from someone their business model now becomes yours.

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Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Venture Capital 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Implement a modern real business model. Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Build your business with minimum outside funding. Recruit the best team members and provide incentives.

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Forecast Startup Stock Options Technical Review 120

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Develop a Business Model. The great managerial guru, Peter Drucker, liked to say that the purpose of a business is to keep and create a customer. Achieving that in profitable ways is the purpose of your business model. New businesses often do not have the capital to attract top talent.

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Limited Liability Company Silicon Valley Business Model Stock Options 162

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

And they probably never will be unless business model viability is reassessed across the board. We didn’t have to change our business model entirely, we just realized what was working and what wasn’t and moved on from there. they still aren’t profitable. And in times like this, give them more.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2023

Without any further ado, let’s take a look at some stock options that might bring a lot of ROI your way. Alphabet (GOOGL) The GOOGL stock needs no introduction. The main reason for this is that as individuals and businesses move away from cash payments , credit card and digital payment options will increase in popularity.

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Stock Stock Options Restful Business Model 101

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Business model: o They bought a lot of ad inventory (banner ads/advertising) driving people to signup forms, converting (fill out form) and sold leads, o Initial strategy was first comparison shopping and then monitoring and upselling on more savings. Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stock options.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Solving the "marketplace" business model - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 10, 2010 A sizable percentage of Capital Factory startup submissions take the form of the "marketplace."

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Therefore, when a small business tries to attract shareholders, it’s paramount to have a business model that is scalable. Before scalability has a chance to be implemented, investment will only happen when a business is able to address the big concerns every investor has at the start of a new financial venture.

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Stock Stock Options Startup Security 166

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

You can Influence Work Culture Positively with an MBA since a comprehensive business degree will teach you effective culture-making and help you dissect your company’s needs. You may, for instance, offer stock options to your best-performing employees, especially in the current uncertain environment.

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Framework Stock Options Leadership Employee 129

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right business partner. You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. How much time do they have for you?

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Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker.

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Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By being public, companies can better attract qualified employees with stock options, helping them buy into the long-term success of the business. Federal tax breaks are offered of up to 35% to private Canadian companies that have an R&D cycle at the core of their business model. An added bonus?

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 9, 2016

Their business model you see, is based on the former, not the latter. . In that case you may as well have the certainty of money that goes with stock options and employment. So, you’re off to raise money and get caught up in someone else’s objective – that of the venture capitalist.

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Founder Stock Options Startup Valuation 48

Start Up Blog

JUNE 9, 2016

Their business model you see, is based on the former, not the latter. . In that case you may as well have the certainty of money that goes with stock options and employment. So, you’re off to raise money and get caught up in someone else’s objective – that of the venture capitalist.

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Founder Stock Options Startup Valuation 48

Up and Running

MAY 17, 2012

Empower your team: 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year Daniel Lubetzky, maker of KIND Healthy Snacks , gives every employee stock options. Have a cause: Lubetsky is a social entrepreneur who’s companies operate on a “not-only-for-profit” business model, with an economic as well as social bottom line.

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Entrepreneur Stock Options Stock Naming 66

Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

Keepers are financed differently than Flippers, which are started with a plan to be acquired in a few years, once the value of the technology or business model is demonstrable. The Flipper’s executives usually have significant equity holdings, either actually owned or reflected in stock options.

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Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Stock Options Valuation 48

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3]

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m not FaceBook or Twitter and have a s**t-ton of potentially imminent IPO stock options to offer someone. Sounds like you pivoted from your original business model. Firstly, these high demand developers probably are near impossible for me to get. That’s not my argument. But they aren’t for me or Kibin.

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Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. With each change in staffing, I was forced to reacquaint the latest Junior Lawyer with our business, re-explain the current legal issues we were in the midst of addressing, etc. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

While our investment focus covers all of Europe, we consider France to be a very important market for our business and we are actively seeking new investment opportunities. France is indeed a country with a proven track record of developing innovative business models. Is this the “social justice” announced by the government?

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

Rather than focus on the valuation issue, which really isn’t that meaningful aside from generating a lot of attention and completely screwing up stock options for new employees, I’d like to look at the big picture here, which is the evolving nature of consumer buying behaviors.

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San Francisco Stock Options Valuation Chicago 39

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. You may call it employee number one with a really low salary and really generous stock options and as the company grows, you’ll fix their salary. Do you think that’s a good business model?

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

Bill Gross examined 200 startups of all shapes, sizes, funding, and outcomes, and discovered that “timing” was the most significant factor of success — ahead of team, business model, idea, and funding. Not for the stock options — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then.

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San Francisco Startup Framework Azure 170

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

They were proficient at running the current business, but lacked both the courage and the moral authority to jeopardize the old business model by embracing the new technology. The transition would have been far easier if these executives running the companies had invented the old models.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

It’s not just the fact that it’s betters offer, it’s not just that it’s cloud based, it also introduces this slightly different business model, the slightly different approach to the whole thing. It’s just raise them basically so that they can stand on their own and then watch them flourish.

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Cloud Small Business Silicon Valley Media 60

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Without having deep connections in the SV/VC community, there is no way that a “guy with an idea” will crack into that world without a strong (really strong) business model. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

Business Model: running a lot of experiments - pricing, packaging, value proposition. Business Model: Now that we are at a reasonable scale, why are our gross margins so low and what can we do to fix it? Business Model: If we''re not profitable at this point, we better be growing > 50%/year.

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Mezzanine IPO Finance Business Model 20