ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. The same applies to Malaysia, where our partner, the MAD Incubator, is in search of 10 good deals to put through the 1M/1M program. Incubator photo from Geograph. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. The first is HSearch, a NoSQL technology based search engine for big data that aims to break the barrier of scale of growing information and accessing it across information silos. You can also read more about Bizosys on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. Otherwise, you are going to be searching for a place to stay at the same time that your fellow founders are, so there will be less offers. by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

I knew that there were issues with my potential partner, but I also knew that the company would grow at a slower pace if I had to start the co-founder search from back at square one. In my first year at Wharton, I attended an info session led by David Tisch of TechStars , a well-regarded start-up incubator. Why did I think that?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. IT & Wireless Incubator “Assistant Director&#. ATI’s Wireless and IT incubators have supported an incredible slate of companies in the recent past – Calxeda , GameSalad , Spredfast , qcue and numerous others.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . I’m distinguishing these from incubators and accelerators.) – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”. (I’m

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Somewhere in the dim past of the company, it too was a startup searching for a business model. The question is – why? What Does this Mean?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

Unfortunately, a number of them had an early exit from the business scene due to ineffective business plans and/or unsustained revenue for their investment. Over time, as you scale your operations, you may need to source additional funding from venture capitalists to mitigate high production costs or limited revenue. Angel Networks.

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Private Equity Startup Incubator Social Network 159

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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. So how does a company act like a startup in search of new business models while still continuing to successfully execute? Instead of measuring success in dollars of profit, …firms focus on measuring capital efficiency. Act Like a Startup.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. In a university, the Lean LaunchPad class teaches a methodology the students can use for the rest of their careers. Here’s what they found.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Adarsh observes that there are over 30 million search queries for the term "Resort" and over 25 million for the term "spa". Ten people paying $37.50 each is much more acceptable than one person paying $375, and my suggestion is to focus on making the product a group-gifting service. ResortHunt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This slinging of whatever against the wall to see what sticks does not a market make, is to me a sign of too much capital in the wrong hands, and it's already the most over invested area in recent years- in both human and financial capital- particularly relative to revenue.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

you might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Passed location to ad networks and saw more effective ad rev, but users were pissed as to why location was needed to search recipes. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company.

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Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 63

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

SingTel Inno8 ), as well as one of the marquee cross-regional startup incubators, JFDI. They want to see cash flow quickly (you cannot wait 2-3 years before determining your revenue model, like in Silicon Valley), so make sure you’re ready for this next step and have a solid plan in place on how to accomplish it.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

We’re at 70 people, and we’ll do $40 million in revenue this year and should get to cash flow breakeven this quarter. ” In this first step, the goal of a startup is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups in Search mode have little process and lots of “do what it takes.” Most startups die here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

on medical device revenues, regardless of profitability delays or cash-flow breakeven. Some startups in this field are actually beginning with Customer Development while others struggle with the classic execution versus search problem. Companies must pay a medical device excise tax of 2.3% Regulatory Issues. Try Something New.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Now if you do the research on the keyword groups that are relevant for this category of products, for example, "diaper bags" and related keywords, you will find that the query yields millions of searches. Also, Kimbra Orr with Kimbra Studios presented an interesting business selling photo jewelry that is already at $750k revenue.

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PPC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator 114

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

They quit their jobs in search of a less stressful existence. The revenue in 2012 was $16.4 Sramana Mitra is the founder of One Million by One Million (1M/1M), a global virtual incubator that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

You might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. One recipe app passed location to ad networks and saw more effective ad rev, but users were pissed as to why location was needed to search recipes. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company.

Portland 40

Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. This never existed a decade ago.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year.

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Part-Time VPE Sweat Equity DC Washington 41

ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

The 1M/1M affiliate program will create additional revenues for some, and for some, this could be their first decent revenue option. That customer is typically searching on Google, and Michael needs to orchestrate his SEO, blogging, and guerrilla p.r. efforts to get them. About Sramana Mitra.

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Affiliate San Francisco Entrepreneur India 130

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

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Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. Overture (Goto.com).

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Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Yet for the purpose of the class (versus an incubator) we do just that – we keep marching the teams through each canvas component because we want to teach them about all nine parts of the canvas. Even though they are focused on learning about the next part of the canvas, every team continues to tenaciously search for that fit.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Yet for the purpose of the class (versus an incubator) we do just that – we keep marching the teams through each canvas component because we want to teach them about all nine parts of the canvas. Even though they are focused on learning about the next part of the canvas, every team continues to tenaciously search for that fit.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch. Made my job infinitely easier, I must say.

India 115

India Vertical Entrepreneur Connecticut 115

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

LinearCube T hen Ajay Khater with LinearCube presented IntelliSuggest, a document management technology to help the process of searching, processing and repurposing content particularly for lawyers, professional services firms who deal with a lot of contracts and other such use cases. That would be the equipment manufacturers like 3M.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Groupon China happens to be a customer of Recruiterbox, and found them through organic search. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Acquisition SEO San Francisco India 115

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

First up was Robert Woltz with Application Services International , whose product EMPAS will provide an on-line low cost solution that benefits medical institutions searching for qualified, credentialed and verified candidates. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52