Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company. Would we signs of success early? Get Out of the Building and test the Business Model.

Lean 298

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. But all things are never equal.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

As the number of startups has exploded over the last 30-40 years best practices have been developed that can be shared from one early stage company to the next. This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. .

Portfolio 84

Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Too frequently, a concept is exciting but cannot be supported within the legal framework or is simply a recycled concept that is reliant upon ‘first mover’ advantage in their jurisdiction. ” Marijuana Business Daily put out a useful chart showing the profitability of each type of cannabis business— take a look here.

Las Vegas 144

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Since the attractiveness of investments is also largely related to exit channels, this aspect affects the availability of capital and company valuation at every stage. It is not uncommon for companies wanting to go public to relocate their registered office to the USA at an early stage. regarding employee issues.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. He's been an early stage investor in entrepreneur since 1987. When they think about the board, including reasons why early stage entrepreneurs and startup entrepreneurs don't create boards. Marketing Podcast with Brad Feld.

Startup 86

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

It bears repeating: an early-stage startup must focus on making one customer group excited by a mission-aligned product. Clayton Christensen’s Jobs to Be Done framework proposes that focusing solely on customer data leads founders on a wild goose chase. Sales channels. Step 3: Jobs to Be Done. Delivery platforms.

Product 436

Product Viral Channel San Francisco 436

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. It might be a much better alignment of skills. How does he mitigate that?

India 115

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

We introduce a framework of portfolio management to help them organize all of the entrepreneurial activity going on in their company and frame it around strategic portfolios, mapping funding and resourcing against their larger growth goals.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Working with influencers impacts your SEO, brand recall and is a new channel to get targeted consumers. Using the cycle of failure framework, described by Schlesinger and Heskett (1991) for service marketing, here’s my take on how it looks for brand/content marketing: Disengaged employees will not help your brand.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Rather, it was his framework for the “history of the web” which did. The other intersection of this construct, with the online video adoption trend, indicates we’re still just in the early stages of being comfortable with the video format. Almost all of the video we watch online is in receiving mode.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Rather, it was his framework for the “history of the web” which did. The other intersection of this construct, with the online video adoption trend, indicates we’re still just in the early stages of being comfortable with the video format. Almost all of the video we watch online is in receiving mode.

Web 100

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. Sales is heavily building and staffing a national sales organization; the sales channel has quotas and sales goals. Building the sales channel and supporting the marketing can burn a lot of cash.

Silicon Valley 260

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

have product/market fit,) then you invest the dollars to create end user demand and drive those customers into your sales channel. Reply Andrew , on November 3, 2009 at 3:46 pm Said: Great post Steve — this puts a great framework around what I’ve been thinking through with my current startup.

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Mucker Lab

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The webinar delved into the crucial topic of company culture for early-stage startups. By embracing this framework, leaders can transform their organizations into proactive agents of culture, charting a course defined by deliberate action rather than passive contemplation.

Early Stage 78

Early Stage Seed Stage Leadership Founder 78

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Drafting a robust IP strategy with legal counsel at an early stage will help prevent problems down the road while setting clear expectations for employees about appropriate behavior regarding confidential information & data sharing practices.

Intellectual Property 125

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Startup 125

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. My answer is almost always the same: dont. Dont scale.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

By way of example, our development team includes one of the core contributors to the open source development framework we use for much of our work; I simply couldnt offshore that person, no matter how much I might appear to save. Its relatively straightforward to develop functional specs.

Bootstrapping 41

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. In a nutshell: Acquisition - Get people to hear about your product from press, blogs and social channels. First Steps in Growth Hacking for Startups. Distribution Hacks.

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API Viral Startup Retention 167

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Venture Capital | Tagged: Steve Blank , Venture Capital , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot » 14 Responses Michael F.

Business Plan 140

Business Plan Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital 140

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 21, 2022

Data integration enables retailers to manage sales, labor hours, inventory, and other critical indicators across their many locations and channels. It is still in the early stages of development, but with the addition of AI, things in the banking business may get easier, as they can quickly mine data for anomalies and outliers.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cloud Early Stage Finance 52

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla has worked in numerous early-stage companies as an executive, investor, board member, or advisor.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

B y definition, early stage startups don’t have lots of money and resources. ChatSq (ChatSquare) integrates location based social networks and communication channels into a single, simple-to-use mobile interface, users can easily share content and communicate in real time with people located around them.

Finder 128

Finder Startup Social Network Mobile 128

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Typically its way more important to build product, and pull in early users to give you that feedback vs. speaking about it.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. Ramping up too quickly will burn precious cash reserve and could sink the business. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. HOW DOES GREYLOCK EVALUATE COMPANIES AT THE SEED-STAGE? Sarah Guo: “One framework that I encourage is for entrepreneurs to ask themselves, “What are the core questions for this company?

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. RS: What makes 1M/1M unique? SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. In over 100 roundtables, I have personally coached more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, Over 7,000 people have attended the roundtables.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Great examples of good content marketing ( GoPro’s YouTube Channel , Jell-O’s Recipes , John Deere’s The Furrow ). What I think we’d recommend is read the article, How to Write a Business Plan in Under an Hour, but basically the concept, the framework that we’re using is this one-page pitch.

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Marketing Oregon Small Business 60

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.) Four developers who have the ability to take on the following roles while cranking out an awesome product in the early stages. Check egos at the door - Keep the communication channels open [link] ot.com/.

Technical Review 51

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. open source framework for app development.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

Consider, for example, the Clinton Administration’s Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, which, in the formative days of the World Wide Web, advised against unnecessary government intervention and regulation, and noted that when government involvement was needed, that involvement should be predictable, minimalist, consistent, and simple.

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