Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Medical Device Distribution Channels in general are a sales team hired directly by the company. Channel Cost = $350-400,000 per sales team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Now if you’re looking for an active plan that you can edit and adjust over time, you may want to consider creating a lean plan. Point of Sale system (if necessary). Determine what type of business plan is right for you

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

If you simply want to map out the aspects of your business for internal use, you can consider a Lean Business Plan. Once you identify your ideal customer, you can tailor your marketing and sales plan to that person. Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan. Marketing and sales plan. Buyer persona.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

In 2020, data breaches are among the greatest cybersecurity concerns, with health records, corporate intellectual property, smart cars, and connected devices being the most vulnerable targets. In other words, the opportunities for data breaches are increasing and the methods to do so are becoming more and more intricate. 5G Network.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2014

And I’m in good company – also in the series is Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Protect any intellectual property you may own by applying for copyrights, trademarks, or patents. Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Once you’ve built out your Pitch, continue working on creating your Lean Plan. Point of Sale system (if necessary).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. I call them “ Lean VC’ s” to emphasize why they’re different. (In Lean VC’s are Different. Here’s why.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan. Your operations plan.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.] Lots of people have ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

An example was that while we were in the seed round at Ring and followed in the A, B, C and D … we were also able to lean into the E round when Jamie really wanted to scale up his funding and the final check was still > 420% IRR! Why does that matter?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition.

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Up and Running

JULY 12, 2016

For lean business plans, operational plans, and strategic plans to be used by startup founders, owners, and management team, company history may be overkill. That might be with strategy, tactics, milestones, metrics, or projected sales and spending. In a lean plan, for owners and management team, history is rarely relevant.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Parades are held, speeches are given, and workers across the country take an extra day’s rest from their labors to picnic, play with their kids, and (often) shop the sales that businesses love to offer on the last official day of summer. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Intellectual Property. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Email address: Home. Tools & Research.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most of us need just a Lean Business Plan, for internal use, with just bullet point lists and important projections. Good businesses always keep their Lean Plan up to date. The lean business plan is great news because it makes the planning process much less daunting. More on that in the section on the Lean Plan.

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Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2016

If you’re not seeking bank or investor funding, you can probably get away with a lean business plan. How to Decide Between Wholesale and Retail Sales. In addition, the licensing you’ll need will vary by state; in Oregon, for instance, as there is no sales tax, business licenses serve as a substitute for a sales tax ID.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Sales – What Channel to reach the customer? Waterfall, Agile, Lean?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. Marketing and sales plan. Your problem and solution. Target market (intended customers).

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

Providing customers with local contacts helps builds confidence and can be a competitive sales advantage. We train our Kenyan sales reps equally on customer service and product knowledge. Maria Springer, co-founder of LivelyHoods notes that, “trust is key in markets swimming with empty promises and ‘cheap’ products.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

billion in total industry sales. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is a great resource to help you learn more about intellectual property. If you have multiple products, your price may even affect sales. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. Today it is even larger. Patent Search.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2015

Unless you’re asking for funding from the bank, an investor, or have a similar “business plan event” coming up, you’re better off sticking to a lean business plan. A lean plan is quicker and easier to write, and distills your plan down to the essentials. For instance, you’ll be required to collect state sales tax from your customers.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Whilst the average tech entrepreneur may lack some of the more business relationship, networking, and sales/marketing skills – they still need to have an entrepreneurial mindset, understand financial models, market factors, and how the business ultimately makes money. Music Gear for Sale/Trade. Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 1, 2018

Less typical is asking how it might be combined (used) with sales, marketing, distribution, purchasing, or the customer service experience. All frameworks (Agile, Lean, CPS, Design Thinking, Stage-Gate) require people to come up with fresh ideas, and MoshPit has a new and better way to do that.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

If you want to put together a strategic plan to map out your business’s growth potential, you might consider a Lean Business Plan. But know that a Lean Plan shares all of the same components of a traditional business plan—it’s just shorter. Tailor your marketing and sales plan to attract more people like your ideal customer.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. We can use technology to make sales far more efficient. . She is a model for us all!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 10, 2020

and LaCroix doesn’t have much that distinguishes it from the competition in terms of intellectual property or added value,” Laurent Grandet, a beverage analyst for Guggenheim, told CNN. . “Customers have since discovered other brands offer acceptable substitutes [.] Make positioning a team effort.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If such individuals do not form a business entity to conduct business in the Field of Interest, but instead sell or assign their developments and technology in the Field of Interest to an unrelated party, I shall be entitled to [ this will vary based on the type of founder ] of the net consideration received by reason of such sale or assignment.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2019

Instead of a flat lifetime value—like $120 for the single sale opportunity you have with each customer or user, you might charge $10 a month per user for as long as your customer uses your service. Be mindful of your intellectual property —the code—whether you bring on an employee or outsource the technical work. Just start.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

This year, Martin Cove Brewing Company will gross $520,000 in sales. This would be the architect, business lawyer, intellectual property attorney, banker, insurance broker, real estate agent, label maker, hop grower, malt supplier, tank fabricator, and accountant.”. Hire the right team. I’m not a big second-guesser.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Which corporate entity owns the intellectual property and other assets? Lean startup (26). This is my least favorite thing in the world, being offered sweat equity in a corporate structure that is unnecessarily convoluted. Funding (1).

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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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