Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. But not doing basic research makes no sense.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 3, 2021

What I truly appreciate about Mr. Masiyiwa is that he is always striving to be better and he has great incubators for young African entrepreneurs. direct-to-consumer model has eliminated distributors, wholesalers, and retailers so the cost of each bed is more affordable. Thanks to Mogale Modisane, ToolsGaloreHQ ! #2- 2- Jeff Bezos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Once you graduate, the feedback will cost much more, and it’s too late to take one more course.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.) Innovation and improvement occurs in Horizon 1 on process, procedures, costs, etc. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 1 is the company’s core business.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example they can reduce component cost, introduce a line extension or create new versions of the existing product. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. These innovations do not require change in a company’s existing business model.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

Finally, the Paris startup space is now receiving private sector support through more than 60 incubators. People: I want to be an active investor who helps projects grow. I therefore value business partners who share my values and vision, and who don’t just see me as an investor, but as a member of the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Once you graduate, the feedback will cost much more, and it’s too late to take one more course.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

For what they bring to the table, startups are indeed changing the economic landscape in ways that extend to job generation, innovation of products and services, and equal distribution of opportunities among businesses. Incubators and Accelerators. Things You Need to Know About Starting a Startup Business.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. I wasn't convinced about the assumptions of the business - there are too many gaps and flawed assumptions around the source and the cost of the data upon which the product is built.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Once you graduate, the feedback will cost much more, and it’s too late to take one more course.

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Entrepreneur Chad Incubator Dilution 120

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally. and each book costs $375 retail. Well, she doesn't. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

Crowdify also has its own Start-Up Incubator and is uniquely positioned to advise the next generation of potential UK Unicorns (start-ups which reach a market valuation of $1bn). And that’s what Crowdify is all about,” says James Rix, the 36-year old entrepreneur and CEO of Crowdify.

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Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 94

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator? We don’t believe in it anymore.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. It scales infinitely and doesn’t cost you anything.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

One passed the other was born four months or so early and spend that time in the incubator and we relied, my wife and I relied on this community called Fish's mom's group to bring us some sanity in terms of hope and how other people who were in that situation dealt with it. We were expecting twins. Marketing is taking a bloodbath in 2023.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. The threat is here; it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. This post offers a few days’ worth of thinking about what I saw. (If

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. Their capital needs are low at the front end. Lean Angels.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

If your solution doesn’t help potential customers reduce cost, increase sales, or improve their service to their customers, you don’t have a business anyway. How else can you define a sales process or know what to look for when you hire a sales manager or seek distribution partnerships? Get over it. Get a different job. They aren’t.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

First up was Robert Woltz with Application Services International , whose product EMPAS will provide an on-line low cost solution that benefits medical institutions searching for qualified, credentialed and verified candidates. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. It might be a much better alignment of skills.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Read more about your customer’s cost of switching from your competitor to you here. This can allow a user to see your value at no actual cost to them. This gives you content to share online through your platforms and potentially get distributed throughout other platforms. Other Tips: Get involved in an incubator / accelerator.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

On top of this, the cost of bringing projects online has fallen, it’s become more fashionable to play the startup game, and so forth. Accelerators and incubators and angels can help new founders get their wings and leave the nest. Money has been coming into the U.S. and the Bay Area specifically at a rapid rate.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Hiring costs are up dramatically The cost of hiring top quality talent in the bay area has gone up dramatically. Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution. At the same time, since the hiring costs are much higher, the companies need to spend more money on recruiting and retaining top talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! That gave Google a huge cost advantage. Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

The major change Josh and his team recognized was that startup costs were dropping dramatically in post-crash early 2000s, and by investing in a larger # of smaller seed rounds at $250K-$1M, rather than fewer / later Series A rounds at $2-5M, they could capture more winners & success earlier in the funding lifecycle.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. …By creating the BUILDUP VC incubator and accelerator … we’re got into the business of providing education and access. You have to put yourself out there.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. How is Aaron going to cover his substantial costs? You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. May 2014 – InstaElite gets accepted to Ryerson University’s DMZ incubator (#1 in North America). Influencers do not post the content.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. This results not in innovation, but in Innovation Theater – lots of coffee cups, press releases, incubators and false hopes, but no real disruptive changes.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

For example, having flexible work hours means you can hire talented candidates from different time zones, which will increase your productivity while keeping the costs down. Because of complex government regulations and a lengthy incubation period, funding a healthcare startup is more difficult compared to financing a tech startup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Yet for the purpose of the class (versus an incubator) we do just that – we keep marching the teams through each canvas component because we want to teach them about all nine parts of the canvas. This week we are seeing the typical class distribution. This creates cognitive dissonance for the teams – on purpose. (If

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Yet for the purpose of the class (versus an incubator) we do just that – we keep marching the teams through each canvas component because we want to teach them about all nine parts of the canvas. This week we are seeing the typical class distribution. This creates cognitive dissonance for the teams – on purpose. (If

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Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

UT Austin is home to the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), the longest-standing technology incubator in the country, which has had an economic impact of over $3 billion in Texas with a focus on deep tech such as healthcare, sustainability, and clean energy. Texas dominates every top ten list.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. All three of todays roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. All three of todays roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52