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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Reducing Startup Risk.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. When starting a business, consider if your product/service has a unique invention that needs to be protected from being copied by others. Secure your intellectual property.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Today they released the first Startup Genome Report — a 67 page in-depth analysis on what makes early-stage Internet startups successful. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Startup Genome Report. better user growth.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Many would argue that even the most theoretically scalable products in healthcare, i.e by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Fundraising debt.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Let’s people sell premium digital content online without dealing with any of the technical stuff. They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool. Jason: Right. So what is it really? Dan: Videos, music.

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