Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Just as a reminder, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. What’s a Startup?

Venture Capital 333

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 333

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. Somewhere in the dim past of the company, it too was a startup searching for a business model.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. Intel under their last two CEOs delivered more revenue and profit than any ever before. Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development.

Architecture 227

Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Just as a reminder, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. What’s a Startup?

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 225