Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2021

Pete is now CEO of BMNT, a company that delivers innovation solutions and processes for governments. They then incubated and delivered a solution that will help get large vessels back to sea faster, potentially saving the Navy $20M-$30M a year. Here are Pete’s 5 principles that will accelerate innovation.

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Curation Technical Review Lean Australia 349

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

The New Zealand chapter of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) wants to see local and central government politicians initiate policies to make entrepreneurship easier and more effective. Moskovitz believes that if entrepreneurs and government collaborate, the conditions to increase entrepreneurship will improve.

New Zealand 74

New Zealand Government Technical Review Angel Investor 74

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

It’s something the financial community – along with government resources, for that matter – needs to think about as it works to help young business leaders consider their financing options. Among those the Canada Business Network suggests: Government grants and financing. Business incubators.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Finance Canada 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Though both startup accelerators and incubators are used to help nurture young companies, the two platforms have subtle differences.

Incubator 127

Incubator South America San Francisco Chile 127

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with 8 VC’s, sat on 4 panels, talked policy with 2 government ministers, 2 members of parliament, 1 head of a public pension fund and was in 1 TV-documentary. a government that’s trying to help, but gets in the way.

Finland 327

Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 327

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with 8 VC’s, sat on 4 panels, talked policy with 2 government ministers, 2 members of parliament, 1 head of a public pension fund and was in 1 TV-documentary. Toxic Business Press and Contradictory Government Incentives.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 330

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Beyond these believers, you need to match your credentials and interests with the multitude of public, academic and government organizations that proclaim to foster research and early development, to satisfy the long-term needs of the people or organizations they support. They believe in you above all else. Technology pilots.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Incubator Government 256

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Incubators and Accelerators. Government programs.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. Commit to a major customer. Small business grants.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 257

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

In my experience as a business advisor and occasional investor, many of you won’t make it that far, succumbing to the high costs of getting those first customers, funding an initial inventory, and building an operational support process. Actively seek out government and local incentives. Negotiate bartering deals versus cash contracts.

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Dilution Incubator Bootstrapping Government 404

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Beyond these believers, you need to match your credentials and interests with the multitude of public, academic and government organizations that proclaim to foster research and early development, to satisfy the long-term needs of the people or organizations they support. They believe in you above all else. Technology pilots.

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Early Stage Angel Investor Incubator Government 412

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. They identify and support high impact startups that need access to customers, mentors, training, and capital. The Endeavor connections catapulted Kairos’ customer reach.

Miami 74

Miami Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence 74

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. Commit to a major customer. Small business grants.

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 233

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Other people want a business plan template , which is a partially-set-up blank business plan Word doc or PDF with obvious places to customize and add your own words, numbers, and content. . Accelerators and incubators. ecosystem of startups and small business includes many accelerators and incubators. is different.

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Business Plan Incubator Software Review Programming 82

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Request a small business grant.

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Equity Startup Small Business Administration SBA 266

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George.

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Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Niesh worked with ecentre, the startup business incubator at Massey University, as part of the Sprint Launch programme, focusing on growth through customer acquisition. Business incubator “ecentre” is based at Massey University’s Auckland campus in Albany. It’s not always the right approach,” said Yoo.

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Global New Zealand Incubator Startup 50

Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. Commit to a major customer. Small business grants.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I presented to thousands of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had nine interviews, chatted with eight VC's, sat on four panels, talked policy with two government ministers, two members of parliament, one head of a public pension fund and was in one TV documentary. A government that's trying to help, but gets in the way.

Finland 158

Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Request a small business grant.

Equity 436

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 436

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. A 50x speedup kind of fast. Here’s how.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Other people want a business plan template , which is a partially-set-up blank business plan Word doc or PDF with obvious places to customize and add your own words, numbers, and content. . Accelerators and incubators. ecosystem of startups and small business includes many accelerators and incubators. is different.

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Incubator Software Review Programming 60

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

Successful candidates will be co-located at AEP offices in Columbus, Ohio and will access data, gather insights and aim to test their products/services in live customer environments. If you have a technology that can help us better communicate with customers, let us know. May 15th 2019. ILLUMINATION ENERGY SUMMIT. June 17th 2019.

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Columbus Ohio Technical Review Startup 145

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Geoloqi solves those problems for its developer customers. Here are just a few: education, tourism, government planning, construction planning, telecom/infrastructure planning, retail, environment management, emergency/disaster management. All Geoloqi’s investors hail from Oregon, and the company was a star of the city’s incubators.

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Portland Oregon Merger Software Developers 163

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. One of the world's leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries, founder space was ranked number one, the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and entrepreneur magazines.

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San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. It’s not a quick solution, but the government and other funding agencies do not want ownership or interest payments from your company. Startup incubators. Commit to a major customer. You have to be relentless in this pursuit to win.

Technical Review 149

Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 149

ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

Additionally, startups get access to mentors’ extensive networks and connections, and the latter facilitates introductions to potential partners, investors, and customers. I am particularly passionate about promoting government collaboration with startups through mentoring initiatives because I can see the value it provides to both sides.

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Founder United States Startup Government 100

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Though both startup accelerators and incubators are used to help nurture young companies, the two platforms have subtle differences.

Incubator 40

Incubator Programming San Francisco Chile 40

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

This promotes the company’s core services to new customers, and hopefully locks them in as permanent customers. In addition, BizSpark offers technical support, business training, and a network of over 2,000 partners to connect members with incubators, investors, advisors, government agencies, and other resources.

Startup 114

Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” The only hard part about it, is to get well-defined problems from sponsors in the local city or government agency that you offer to students. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. . “I want to see what you look like in a prison suit.”

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 332