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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Carlos stirred his coffee.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. Innovation can be a product, design, or a process of doing things to solve a technical problem. It can also be used for follow-ups and marketing. Secure your intellectual property.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money , have 2.9x

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money, have 2.9x

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. For start-ups in hot markets, the problem also manifests itself in fundraising. by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Fundraising debt.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO).

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Picking Ventures: Part 2 - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. Growth generated by market demand and sales can be very complex.  If the market demand ramps quickly enough there isn't enough time to consider much else.