Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. All too often, founders fall in love with their products or technology, ignore negative feedback from customers, and spend years building a product based on a vision that no one else shares.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. All too often, founders fall in love with their products or technology, ignore negative feedback from customers, and spend years building a product based on a vision that no one else shares.

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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. All too often, founders fall in love with their products or technology, ignore negative feedback from customers, and spend years building a product based on a vision that no one else shares.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

At the pre-seed stage, when the creator has a concept, the founder’s background, educational qualifications, domain experience, previous ventures, market size, and the complimentary talents brought by the cofounders are some of the most critical variables to consider before investing in a startup.

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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. Rossanna Ceccato is the founder of Redress, a disruptive clothing platform that helps women renew and refresh their wardrobes through dress swaps. 2- Jeff Bezos. Photo Credit: John Li.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. There’s also the enormous looming cost of distribution — one that’s hard to measure and even harder to predict. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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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. Blade’s founders believe that the power of scaling and sharing can now be brought to high performance computing, and they have developed and delivered the technical solutions to make it possible. linkedin.com/in/noppornsuppipat.

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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. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Find summer internships and part-time work in your field of interest.

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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.) Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 groups need to be physically separate from operating divisions (in a corporate incubator, or their own facility.)

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. ”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Continuous innovation builds on a strength of the company’s current business model but requires that new elements be created.

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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. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Find summer internships and part-time work in your field of interest.

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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. Before I end, let me also point you to an interview we're running on my blog with Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList , which you may find enlightening. We discussed guerilla p.r.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Can you become a founder by watching videos? Perhaps, but founders are closer to artists than any other profession. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

There’s a new generation of startup companies that have been transforming Austin’s market, and it’s exciting to witness founders who are developing amazing startups every day. refers to Capital Factory as “the city’s dominant startup incubator,” a title we’re more than happy to accept. Tom Foster for Inc.’s s “The 50 Best U.S.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I think our POV comes through in this discussion and hopefully it helps any founders decide if we’re the type of seed fund they’d enjoy working with. They have to build a product, distribute that product, and build a team. We don’t want to be an incubator, accelerator, crypto, or whatever flavor of the month is.

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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. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Find summer internships and part-time work in your field of interest.

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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. A well designed trust system with reviews and ratings and dispute settlement would be necessary to prevent fraud, the way other exchanges like eBay do.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Quilt (a NextView portfolio company incubated in our Boston office) recently launched a fully digital life insurance product that approves policies in just 15 minutes. We also believe blockchain will enable novel distributed services that do not presently exist, for lack of a scalable real-time architecture for managing microtransactions.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Cases and plans are useful for teaching managers of process, not founders.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It’s now been over 3 years since the team has left my classroom and I thought I’d share with you what the two founders, Jorge Heraud and Lee Redden, learned then and what they’re doing now. At week six they were trying to figure out their distribution channel ( here ) after another pivot. The Autonomous Lawnmower.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. When John Brockman ,founder of Edge , interviewed NathanMyhrvold his first question was “ What’s a CTO ”,to which Nathan replied: “Hell if I know. I am posting it here as it might be of generalinterest. Below are some sources.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Brett Martin, founder of @sonar, has written a gut-wrenching post about the lessons he learned from the failure of his startup. This point generalises to distribution deals for just about any startup. Finally – Sonar Media was born in an incubator. First the background: For those unfamiliar, Sonar Media Inc.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2020

Saam arranges Zooms with key non-founder members of startup teams, since he no longer runs into them on visits to their offices. For example, one of Saam’s areas of focus is security; with everyone working remotely, the security and integrity of distributed channels of communication is more important than ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. And you can tell that the founders have thought greatly about creating the right kind of space for startup companies. These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Their sales had given them some real data on three potential distribution channels: direct to consumer, brick and mortar retail, retailers. Lessons Learned. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. spray-and-pray? startupcto

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me this week at the Stanford University studio were: Wayne Sutton , co-founder of BUILDUP VC. Dave Kashen.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

However after Sequoia and Ron Conway announced their investment in YC in 2009 , and after YC alumni DropBox and AirBnb raised capital on billion-dollar valuations in 2010-11, the program quickly became the gold standard among early-stage startup incubators. And of course then there is our own fund, 500 Startups.

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ithacaVC

JULY 30, 2014

The Forbes ranking was based on ratio of (x) the number of alums and students that identify themselves as business founders and owners on LinkedIn to (y) the total student body. We have been building the Cornell eship program for a long time, and it is wonderful to see growing external recognition. Go Big Red!

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

Besides, company founders have to learn first-hand what it takes to win over customers. How else can you define a sales process or know what to look for when you hire a sales manager or seek distribution partnerships? Incubators and economic development agencies may invest at the concept stage. Get a different job. They aren’t.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Home prices are moving in lock-step with higher salaries, to the point where many investors are hunting for deals outside the area, where teams are now starting off distributed or with a plurality of offices to locate some functions outside of the Bay Area costly square footage. Getting capital in the earliest stages continues to get easier.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Hopefully we will see you there! Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

First up, Joel Korpi from Austin, Texas, pitched Rockify , a platform for transforming video content into multiple device friendly formats, process payments and help content producers distribute and monetize content more widely. Joel has one anchor customer right now and has validated his assumptions based on that case study. StyleShop247.com.

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