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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover.

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The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

Steve Blank

The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). When we started this class, the concept of Lean (business models, customer development, agile, pivots, mvp’s) was new to everyone. Class Velocity/Depth.

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6 ways to monetize a user-based business model

The Next Web

How do you monetize a unique business model based on users rather than selling an actual product? We have a very simple business model. We asked members of the Young Entrepreneurs Council for their thoughts. Giving it away at Contently. “At At Contently, our core monetization strategy is through marketplace transactions.

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7 Ethical Fictions Lead Many New Entrepreneurs Astray

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business, new or old, needs to remember that an ethical culture, or lack of it, shows in the actual behavior and attitudes of all team members, rather than just in policy documents and videos from the top. Can you vouch for the culture and ethics of your company, from top to bottom?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

It would be easy to just put up the video and the transcription in this blog and be done with it. I’m going to extract and paraphrase a few below, but I urge you to read the transcript and watch the video. Read the entire transcript of Chris Brose’s talk here and watch the video below. Why Did Chris Write The Kill Chain ?

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7 Indications Of Your Ability To Get Business Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Early in the relationship, every investor instinctively looks for some key indicators of the ability to get results, like the following: Communicates well in every business medium. Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. A proven business model, ready to scale, is particularly attractive.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

How would customer interviews work via video? After teaching remotely for the last year, we’ve learned that customer discovery is actually more efficient using video conferencing. For the final Lessons Learned presentation many of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem.

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