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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. Within a decade, the rise of venture capital in Silicon Valley enabled startups to find commercial customers rather than military ones.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction.
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ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
During this week's roundtable we discussed an area that deserves a serious look from entrepreneurs: Rural BPO. Today, I invited entrepreneurs to come up with ideas, apply the 1M/1M methodology to it, and come discuss with me at these roundtables. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. I call it drip-financing.
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JULY 16, 2012
Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. And the money is nice, too."
ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 6, 2011
6, 2011 we hosted our 64th free One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.
ReadWriteStart
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
I have long been a champion of Indian product companies, urging the entrepreneurs to think beyond labor arbitrage and outsourcing. No investment is possible without that validation, whether it is government grants (and there is quite a bit of that available for clean energy projects) or angel or venture capital.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
Venture capitalists today don't exactly practice venture capital. Such OEM deals may cost him 50% of his product revenue, but would be the fastest way to reach a large number of customers, nonetheless. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.
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