Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Commercial product prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Silicon Allee (a TNW content partner ) caught up with him to pick his brain on what 2013 might hold for us. What it doesn’t have is the older people, the corporate people, the guys with more maturity and experience in sales and business development. SILICON ALLEE (SA): How do you see the startup scene in Berlin at the moment?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. We used to be much more like a typical incubator. He's the CEO of founders space.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? But a good developer could make it quicker.”. Werdelin equates building a successful product to building a nightclub. 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

A business owner may develop these skills via practical business operations; however, it is a rather risky approach. Therefore, they are great partners for brainstorming. These events bring people together from all over the world and help you develop a holistic insight. So what is the safest solution?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Binational Industrial Research and Development ( BIRD ) Foundation, approved $8.1 The BIRD Foundation promotes collaboration between Israeli and American companies in various technological fields for the purpose of joint product development. HADASIT LAUNCHES JEWISH-ARAB BIOMED INCUBATOR IN GALILEE. The Israel/U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Wildfire Interactive.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? There are at least 6 incubators now being set up in LA.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model - first by finding product/market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition/activation, partners, costs, etc.). They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners.

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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. Product development input. Wildcard : any new disruptive ideas that have the potential to reshape the travel industry. Apply Here Apply Here.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Codeacademy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

Most of the startups we talk to have invested a lot of time and most, if not all, of their funds developing prototypes, but they still need a lot of help to get to market. Thanks to this lab, your working prototype is born, and ready to be incubated. Either way, your entrepreneurial dream has just come true.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

My partner is a full-time developer and math teacher, and I’m an engineer. Marketing the site and creating a business behind the product proved much more challenging. They are frequently confused with incubator programs, but the two are technically different. Incubators. Coding the site was straightforward.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2015

When you find your creative team to design and develop it, part of their market research entails researching your competition and your customers. Yana Nirshberg is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Creative Director at ParadigmNEXT, Inc. Advantage: Attract your visitors. There are many ways to create an experiential website.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize. Does it become a new division?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

has announced this morning a $1 million round led by Genesis Partners, Blumberg Capital and Innovation Endeavors , Eric Schmidt’s investment fund, as well as private investors including Joe Londsdale (founder of Palantir). I sraeli startup Any.Do

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

TinyTap , an Israeli start-up that has developed an educational app platform based on user-generated content, was one of three top-prize winners at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ” JOHNSON AND JOHNSON TO OPEN MED-TECH INCUBATOR IN ISRAEL. Browse the headlines below for more news.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. Short and sweet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. And do your customer development.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 29, 2010

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) announced today that Cindy R. Dr. WalkerPeach comes from Asuragen and Ambion, two companies founded by Dr. The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a not-for-profit business-building unit of The University of Texas at Austin has appointed Cindy R. as the new director of the ATI-Bioscience Incubator.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

Benchmark Capital and existing investors including Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners funded the round for future product development, likely for iPad related Flash content (more here ). Genesis Partners Ltd. Benchmark Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Mangrove Capital Partners.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

Some years ago, I wanted to develop classes and get them into academic programs. Join an incubator or accelerator. Startup incubators and accelerators can help a new business grow, and with that comes valuable mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs. “I See Also Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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