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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. There are four main types of venture studios: Tech transfer studios , such as America’s Frontier Fund , work with companies and/or government labs to source ideas and intellectual property. Why Would an Entrepreneur Join a Venture Studio?

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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending? Look for examples of similar companies and revenue multiples achieved from acquirers.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending? Look for examples of similar companies and revenue multiples achieved from acquirers.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) Your potential exit partners are also a customer. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details.

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Arif Bhalwani, CEO of Third Eye Capital, on the ‘Golden Age’ of the Private Credit Market

The Startup Magazine

The most poignant of these challenges was the quest for capital partners, which was not just about securing capital but about finding collaborators who were willing to believe in the vision and commit to the long-term journey. Are there new revenue streams you can tap into? Are there inefficiencies that you can iron out?