Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Setting up the business as an LLC or C-corporation can now be done online with low registration fees and minimal risk.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Prior to founding Keen Home , Nayeem Hussain spent his career focusing on M&A, corporate development/strategy, and financial analysist, first at Prudential Financial and then at Loral Space & Communications. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. He’ll pivot. He’ll discover the value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Setting up the business as an LLC or C-corporation can now be done online with low registration fees and minimal risk.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate Social Media LLC 260

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

At his first venture, Henry O’Bryan, LLC, Drew quickly learned that startup life is nothing like the movies. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. He created Amper Music to change the way music is composed and created for video content, but it is not his first startup. . We didn’t sell it.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2017

She is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC , a consulting firm based in Menlo Park, CA, that helps companies excel in the Membership Economy. Robbie Kellman Baxter is the author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I wish I had talked to an accountant before I talked to a lawyer, because if we had established ourselves as a S Corp or an LLC in the beginning, I could have gotten a lot of my own money back and then reinvested it in the company. Filed under: Customer Development. Here’s one thing Jacqueline wishes she’d done differently.

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