Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with distributor or beneficiary. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. entrepreneurship is experiential and requires theory and a ton of practice. Demo Days Versus Lesson Learned Presentations.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies.

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Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

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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. Business Plan. That said, it is important to talk to customers before you spend 6 months writing a plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Tags: entrepreneurs startups funding sources business.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. But years ago, we had no alternative – how to write a business plan was it. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

To organize my thoughts, I found a new book, “ Burn the Business Plan ,” by Carl Schramm, who speaks from experience founding five companies, working major corporate roles, and being an active venture investor. 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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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

Since much of the start-up playbook is about learning as much as you can as quickly and cheaply as possible in order to reach some important milestone, many founders, investors, and engineers look at a $200k, two-year program as an inefficient means to an uncertain end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

< Business plan creation. Every university has educational courses and can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Don’t look here for venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage government grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Don’t talk directly to potential investors until you have the business plan and other basics complete. Most startups need funding before shipping, and investors expect to see your website to validate your business plan. Prime the investor world. Tune your website. These things can’t be done while in stealth mode.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Soon thereafter, Breadcrumbs was accepted into San Diego’s tech incubator, EvoNexus. Business Listings. The problem with how search engines handle local search is that they get you to a business’ doorstep – their Yelp reviews, social media pages, and website. Searching for Customer Validation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Don’t talk directly to potential investors until you have the business plan and other basics complete. Most startups need funding before shipping, and investors expect to see your website to validate your business plan. Prime the investor world. Tune your website. These things can’t be done while in stealth mode.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. The goal is for them is to observe this class, then host and teach the next round of 50 NSF Innovation Corps scientist/engineer teams in July. Yet this isn’t an incubator. Here are the first five. Team ColorWheels.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. You’re supposed to demo the business, not just the product. But they’ll sit up and pay attention when you talk about the customers and revenues of the business. Better to decide now that you would rather pursue a career path in engineering than in entrepreneurship.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Soon thereafter, Breadcrumbs was accepted into San Diego’s tech incubator, EvoNexus. Business Listings. The problem with how search engines handle local search is that they get you to a business’ doorstep – their Yelp reviews, social media pages, and website. Searching for Customer Validation.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As you’re getting started and working on your business plan , you’ll need to look into and understand some of the specific requirements in your area: Obtaining business licenses and permits. Things you need to include in your business plan to get a bank loan. Getting a tax ID and understanding your tax obligations.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

My partner is a full-time developer and math teacher, and I’m an engineer. Marketing the site and creating a business behind the product proved much more challenging. To thrust our venture forward, gain business skills quickly, and increase our chances of raising capital, we searched for an accelerator program. Incubators.

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Gust

JULY 19, 2014

I’d suggest that you browse through the Gust investor search engine for investment groups (and accelerators, incubators, business plan competitions, et al) that are relevant to your startup (by location, industry, type of organization, etc.),

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

Don’t talk directly to potential investors until you have the business plan and other basics complete. Most startups need funding before shipping, and investors expect to see your website to validate your business plan. Tags: entrepreneur stealth startup health business. Prime the investor world. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Applying teams must have at least one women and one technologist (engineer, scientist, etc) on the founding team. To enter the competition, submit your application , your "napkin business plan," and film a quick video pitch. sponsors a series of monthly networking events, as well as a pre-incubator program.

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Gust

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Don’t talk directly to potential investors until you have the business plan and other basics complete. Most startups need funding before shipping, and investors expect to see your website to validate your business plan. Prime the investor world. Tune your website. These things can’t be done while in stealth mode.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. No revenues, no costs. Bo from RoseTech even volunteered to videotape the sessions.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 23, 2013

CU has several programs, clubs and resources for students who are pursuing entrepreneurship, including the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship , which is part of the Leeds School of Business. The goal is for Spark Boulder to be a co-working space, incubator, gathering spot and event site.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups. The HackFwd model has a lot of potential here: give entrepreneurial engineer a year of salary to startup a company. But that is now changing.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It still seems like yesterday that Ann Miura-Ko and I were creating a new class – the Lean LaunchPad at Stanford to teach students an alternative to how to write a business plan. Customer Discovery and Lean Innovation in Academic Settings vs Non-Academic Settings such as incubators and accelerators. I quickly did the math.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” With any startup, investment capital is crucial to getting your business plan off the ground. ” Raise enough capital.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

As a founder he got the company to the Build phase because he was able to think creatively and independently since conditions on the ground changed so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan became irrelevant. What resources are there for me to learn how to guide my company through the Build phase?”.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Next, Michael Issa, from the San Francisco, CA, pitched Quipu Applications , which is a cloud based business plan financial modeling application. Michael has almost 90,000 free users and is looking for a way to be in the deal flow of people looking for business plan software. efforts to get them. About Sramana Mitra.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Now, as for the presenters, first up today was Benson Hall with Advanced Dental Technologies , presenting a business plan to bring Cone Beam Dental Imaging machines to a large number of consumers. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar. Advanced Dental Technologies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

While large companies execute known business models, startups are temporary organizations designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model. This insight has begun to change how we teach entrepreneurship, incubate startups and fund them. Buyable Startup s: Born to Flip. lesson of using SBIC funds.),

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