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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Team – higher requirements for caliber of team members Product – focus on truly differentiated and not me-too Market – is it really big enough to provide investor returns** Traction – need more users, partners, patents, etc Timing – are you building for yesterday or 2 yrs from now? Business - how are you actually going to make money?

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Students will start by mapping their assumptions (their business model) and then each week test these hypotheses with customers and partners outside in the field (customer development) and use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to build the product. Action : What partners will you need?

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Retooling Marketing in a B2B Company

Venture Chronicles

The demand center teams would respond to product & solution marketing, as well as partner marketing to drive campaigns, content, events, and interactive (SEO/SEM) for the specific outcome being targeted.

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? product costs, packaging, forward shipping, fulfillment, merchant fees, discounts, resellers/partners, credit card errors, returns shipping and processing, etc. Have you thought about how potential IP theft would impact your business? These add up very quickly.