Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Mrinal Menon is one of my Hacking for Defense students at Stanford where he’s currently in the MBA program. Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies.

Artificial Inteligence 326

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 326

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant.

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I’m excited about the rise of digital therapeutics: evidence-based therapeutic interventions driven by high quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. . I recently caught up with Zak Holdsworth , co-founder and CEO of Hint Health , who gave me some food for thought on new insurance models.

Social Network 102

Social Network Vertical Cofounder Software Improvement 102

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. Milis Bio began in May of 2016, in the RebelBio accelerator program run by SOS Ventures. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

Ireland 62

Ireland Morocco North America Philippines 62

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements. If you want to share your wisdom to founders, you have many avenues that do not require prior Freudian training.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

My recent years have included many thousands of hours of mentoring, coaching, advising, teaching, and encouraging startup founders with prospective ventures across a wide range of disciplines. In those situations, I have watched over business issues and opportunities so the founders have been able to stay focused on their visions.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Incubator Software Review Vertical 48

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2020

Today, Monument announced the launch of their virtual programs for people looking to change their relationship with alcohol. While treatment programs do exist, there is wide variation in terms of price, quality, and efficacy. We are pleased to once again be working with the founders of Monument Mike Russell and Justin Geller.

Vertical 207

Vertical Programming Software Leadership 207

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Whether you want to call them incubators, accelerators or any other name, the template is pretty similar: fixed amount of time inside the program in exchange for equity (and sometimes a cash investment). The rise of the vertical incubator focused on bringing together a set of startups aligned around a particular technology or industry.

Incubator 107

Incubator Vertical Equity Matching 107

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Cleveland Software Review Iowa 62

David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

It’s not our first rodeo, as we’d graduated from [name of an unrelated accelerator] but we wanted and needed some support around our vertical. We paused because it was an inaugural cohort but being that it was vertical-specific and the managing director worked for a highly lauded startup in our vertical, we decided to go for it. ([a

Cofounder 134

Cofounder Technical Review Vertical Programming 134

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1M/1M premium program.

North Carolina 116

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

South Korea 89

South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. We invited entrepreneurs considering joining the 1M/1M premium program to the Stanzr chat room and did a one-hour Q&A session. If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1M/1M premium program. We thought it was very cool!

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Our homeownership programs help people build momentum with their finances , and we hope to continue building momentum in our business for years to come! Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. 9- A merger of two companies.

Naming 150

Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Merger 150

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Seattle Elevator Pitch Equity 62

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. 2012 sees extreme contraction in the Daily Deal space.

Cloud 213

Cloud Small Business Mobile Social Media 213

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

500 Startups has announced the 33 newest companies joining its accelerator program this Fall. It is a rather interesting and complex set of startups in the group and could be considered the most international, diverse, and exciting group in the history of the accelerator program so far. Fake it before you make it.”

Founder 136

Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? Phase 3 – Evaluate Whether A Loyalty or Rewards Program Will Drive Repeat Business.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The program was announced in November last year and since whittling its way down to the eight final teams has seen has seen the groups receive more than a dozen show and tell sessions and 827 one-on-one mentoring sessions in a bid to fine tune the groups’ ideas for Internet of Things hardware.

Internet 120

Internet Bulgaria Portugal Stealth 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? Phase 3 – Evaluate Whether A Loyalty or Rewards Program Will Drive Repeat Business.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable). These certainly are not the only funds playing in the space, but point to the quality of minds entering the space.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? Phase 3 – Evaluate Whether A Loyalty or Rewards Program Will Drive Repeat Business.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. The Assistant Director will also work directly with the startups that are supported by these programs and support UT-related startups that are part of the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy or Bioscience incubators.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Intellectual Property Incubator Due Diligence 70

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? Phase 3 – Evaluate Whether A Loyalty or Rewards Program Will Drive Repeat Business.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

No newly hired sales and marketing exec is going to tell a founder, “Hey my prior experience and assumptions may not actually be relevant to this new startup.” The Outsourcing of Founders Responsibility The Product Development model separates founders from deeply understanding their customers and market.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

When you're applying to pre-schools, programs give clear cutoff dates. There are three main sources: 1) Other founders who raised *recently * in related areas. Even if you don’t know other founders well, founders are usually up for helping other founders. VC doesn't have those clear cutoffs. Am I still pre-seed?

ChatGPT 78

ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. You can listen to the recording of today's roundtable here.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

He has served as a teacher for the Stanford ME310 Global New Product Design Innovation Program and has also been recognized as one of the top 30 Designers Under 30 in 2015 by Forbes magazine. The mission of Ling Technology’s founders was to create a “Ling” world with man and robot symbiosis. How did you come up with your business name?

Artificial Inteligence 56

Artificial Inteligence China Technical Review Cofounder 56

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

by Joseph De Sena , founder of Spartan. When I founded the Spartan enterprise, I brought together experts in construction, marketing, sales, procurement, and a host of other verticals. No one ever completed a Spartan Race by daydreaming on his couch. Finishers make it to the end of intense obstacle courses by training, pure and simple.

Vertical 179

Vertical Boston Retention Design 179

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Founder’s New Insight Smart founders are never satisfied with simply executing their current business model, they are constantly observing, orienting and deciding whether their current business model can be made better. But the purpose of this post is what happens when a founder (or large company CEO) finds a better business model.

Customer 195

Customer Silicon Valley RSS California 195

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Sarah Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO, answered some questions about the company. We have developed a product that first meets the needs of public safety agencies and organizations, but we have seen a ton of interest from corporations across multiple verticals?—?hospitality, Do you see Geospiza implemented on a larger scale?

Denver 48

Denver Startup Austin Vertical 48

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? The answer is no.

B2B 120

B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

A key ingredient of Techstars accelerator programs is our experienced and engaged mentor community. Mentors embrace the Techstars “Give First” philosophy by offering founders their time, advice, and connections. As Techstars continues to selectively expand into new geographies and industry verticals, our mentors are important as ever.

Syndicate 70

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Vertical 70

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

San Diego 62

San Diego Memphis AJAX Netherlands 62