Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, NISI recommends starting with the minimum focused set of features and technology that will drive a customer purchase. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. Nail the solution.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I would love to see a much better leverage of web technologies to facilitate the formulation of dance related experiences. As you may recall from previous roundtable posts, that 1M/1M works closely with many incubators around the world. We simply offer our services as an extension of the incubators' existing programming.

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Romania Web Incubator Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. so it shouldn't be long till they hop across the Channel. The Funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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Equity Startup Small Business Administration SBA 266

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.) Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 groups need to be physically separate from operating divisions (in a corporate incubator, or their own facility.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 436

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To do a solid holiday season he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuffed in the retail channels with bad terms will be a kiss of death. I will connect the company to a few larger companies that may be good OEM channels for them. JCLABoutique.com.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

With talent in sales, marketing, and technology, Niesh was still missing some critical processes and systems – including elements of finance and human resources – to support their growth. Business incubator “ecentre” is based at Massey University’s Auckland campus in Albany. It didn’t work. “We

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

One needs to evaluate their go-to-market strategy, distribution channels, scalability, execution team, and so on at this time. Because of this, getting seed venture money, for example, becomes more feasible for many startup companies, particularly those in the technology industry.

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Seed Stage Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence 125

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

As for the presenters, first up, Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, presented Bizosys and his product 10screens , a specification capture technology for software development workflows. We also did some segmentation work and related exploration of relevant channels. MyDataOrganizer. Photo by 7rains. Discuss.

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India Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Affiliate 115

View from Seed

APRIL 24, 2019

Instead they limit what channels they actually pay attention to. On the commercial side, increasingly ecommerce retailers have started to use SMS as a two-way communications channel with their customers. A SMS interaction which is deeply emotional, and feels personal, because of the intimacy of the channel. They don’t.

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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. At 11 a.m.,

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India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It certainly worked out pretty well when Stanford licensed the search technology that Larry and Sergei had been working on back to them at Google. More and more startups are getting built without relying on University research--because hard technology is rarely the barrier to innovation these days. Kick the faculty out.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. But they’ve taken that basic technology past fabrics into multiple markets – medical, filtration, fibers, cables, etc. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.

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Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. Ramkumar has made certain pricing model and delivery model assumptions that are yet to be validated.

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. He was the CEO of two startups.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Both of these traits made all the difference for the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Clips from their interviews are below, but first a word about the show: Entrepreneurs are Everywhere airs Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern on Sirius XM Channel 111. Phil Randazzo.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder Nevada 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

Mentors (average age ~50) are an experienced entrepreneur located near the academic institution and has experience in transiting technology out of academic labs. The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. The output of the NSF I-Corps class provides a proxy.).

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

To my surprise, the ideas and technology behind that startups were not superior to the ones we have in Finland. The incubators and co-working spaces are on par with what we have. The last thing you want when you launch is to tailor to several languages, cultural differences, distribution channels and small blogs and other media.

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Silicon Valley Finland Sweat Equity Entrepreneur 156

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions.

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Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Like all great Silicon Valley companies they started with a technology and guessed who the customers will be. At week six they were trying to figure out their distribution channel ( here ) after another pivot. When I teach in universities I’m not running an incubator. ” Lee Redden – Blue River Technology.

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Lean Silicon Valley Customer Development Incubator 272

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 76

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Those interactions vary – from mentorship and product feedback to learning about unmet needs in a market or understanding whether a sales channel is worth pursuing. In fact, some VCs have developed technologies to give portfolio executives searchable access to their Linkedin and CRM, similar on a small scale to what GLG offers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: 10. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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Entrepreneur Startup Equity Small Business Administration 283

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

Loyalty and rewards: tech solutions and platforms, such as card-linking and alternative payment options, which are easily integrated into Avios, the airlines’ channels and retail partners. There is a wealth of early-stage companies developing transformative technologies which IAG will embrace as part of Hangar 51. Sponsor Comments.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Lessons learned from starting up and teaching entrepreneurship were the focus of an interview with the latest guest on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Grant Warner is the Managing Director of the HowU Innovate at Howard University.

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Cofounder DC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

The premise of the class is that startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Yet this isn’t an incubator. And hats off to Kathy Eisenhardt and Tom Byers of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program who gave us the freedom to invent and teach the class.

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Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. They have deep insights into how technologies and markets are moving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120