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. Set expectations accordingly.

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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. Set expectations accordingly.

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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. Set expectations accordingly.

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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. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

Do you have an early-stage startup? A business in its early stages can often use a leg up, whether in the form of wise words from a mentor or an introduction to a strategic partner. This is where incubators come in. This is where incubators come in. Incubators provide that very important sense of community.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Incubators and Accelerators. Then we have startup platforms like incubators and accelerators. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Government programs. Government programs. Early-stage. Options for initial setup. ? Equity investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. This is the transition stage from basic research to applied research.

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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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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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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. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Plans for more Singapore-based technology incubators. The NRF just announced that it will be opening up the application process for its Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS) to allow more investors to set up technology incubators under the scheme. ” Global Money Flow – From the West to Asia.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. 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. Friends and family. Small business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

The real value of these groups is the relationships you can build with key people who can help you later, as well as the early learning from the incubator organization. Actively seek out government and local incentives. Join a startup accelerator or structured peer group. Negotiate bartering deals versus cash contracts.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

This is especially true for those teams or individuals that become a part of an accelerator or incubator program. As I said above, incubators and accelerators are great for those that have never started a business before, or perhaps who have never started a startup. Difference #3 – planning for the ‘end’ or the exit strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. 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. Friends and family. Small business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Despite all these advantages, it seems that the foreign investors are still reluctant to invest in seed and early stage projects. Patricia Jumi Co-Founder at The Growth Hub.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The rare exception is a special case, in which investors know an entrepreneur well and are ready to invest in them at an early stage. And even before that, during the early stages, they’ll expect you to have a business plan in the background, for your own use. So you do a lot of work before you get investors. You should.

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Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. 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. Friends and family. Small business grants.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common tactic we’ve seen from large corporations is providing a package of benefits for startups in order to build relationships with early-stage companies. This program “will help early-stage consumer health companies navigate the unique challenges of building successful growth companies.” 3) Freebies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. 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. Friends and family.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 149

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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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

But the problem with this is that most VCs in the Valley, especially early stage ones, only like to invest in companies that are within driving distance from their offices. The rest of Asia is still developing with far more angel and early-stage investors than mid-to-later stage folks.

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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. 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.) A 50x speedup kind of fast.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

” Golden Gate Ventures , which has incubated 18 companies across 6 countries in Asia, estimates that the number of companies across Southeast Asia to receive Series A financing will double in 2014. The NRF has identified these six VC firms after evaluating 32 submissions of which 18 were initially shortlisted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

In fact, there are people and organizations amenable to very early stage opportunities, so my advice is target your proposals to the right people to match the stage of your effort. Look to academia and the government for basic research. Find private fund incubators for technology pilots.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. Key stakeholders in the broader healthcare ecosystem will be co-located under one roof: entrepreneurs, universities, established companies and strategic partners, providers, payers, hospitals, service providers, associations, advocacy groups, government and more.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 4, 2020

These are achievable dreams, and our goal as a bioscience incubator is to help make those dreams reality through education, mentorship, and access to technology.”?—?Tami Temple’s Health and Bioscience District is governed by a seven-member board. Tami Annable, THBD Executive Director.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. This is the transition stage from basic research to applied research.

Product Development 120

Product Development Developer Product Angel Investor 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

This insight has begun to change how we teach entrepreneurship, incubate startups and fund them. When I read policy papers by government organizations trying to replicate the lessons from the valley, I’m struck how they seem to miss some basic lessons. but then the government got out of the way. Buyable Startup s: Born to Flip.

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