Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. This is a term indicating the use of “crowd appeal” to get money from interested people on the Internet for a share of your company. Startup accelerator.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. StageGate Process.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

Imagine having unlimited access to a state-of-the-art lab with global R&D researchers who are developing new technologies in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, cognitive services and robotics. Thanks to this lab, your working prototype is born, and ready to be incubated. China’s supply chain benefits startups in many ways.

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Artificial Inteligence China Incubator Startup 100

YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

It turns out that corporations are often far more effective in training entrepreneurs than are most business schools or incubators. People in big companies see innovation through the lens of new product development. And, they know that marketing is the critical ingredient that makes it all come together.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? Customer Equity. The Year of the Black Swan. Definitions of common financial terms. A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. General Management.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Legal, Equity, etc. Kanbanery â?? LeanKit Kanban â??

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company.

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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). With that out of the way, however, it’s critical that you look for people with complementary skills to your own. Short and sweet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

The combination of companies looking for capital and investors looking for liquidity put a strain on early stage start ups but seemed to have played favourably for growth equity investments and later stage companies. Internet Gold Golden Lines Ltd. BrainsToVentures AG; Israel Cleantech Ventures Buyer Funds: b-to-v Private Equity S.C.S.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

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? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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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? Trying to regain internet connection.

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