Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

With an out-of-this-world business plan. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 5, 2022

However, taking a moment to think about if you are getting the most out of your internet can be a game changer in terms of your capacity to do business. Take a moment to check out these seven things to make sure your plan is up to the task. Consideration 1: Business fibre or residential?

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

I believe that there is no better way for a woman to succeed than to have her own business. I went through the information technology revolution and was on the bleeding edge of both technology and the acceptance of women in the workplace. . I got an SBA loan and purchased my business within months of beginning my search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As a member of the selection committee on one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization. Keiretsu Forum. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Minutes 18.30 – 26.30.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 If you are the type of person who finds travel stressful, this may be something to consider before launching a home health care business. Technological upkeep and maintenance. Step 1: Formulate your business plan. This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. population.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. TECHNOLOGY.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2012

Technology mentoring … an ongoing tools and systems orientation for team members who must interact with technology on a daily basis. Many Babyboomers run from the new technology. Develops and conducts ongoing sessions to improve company’s responsiveness to the needs of both internal and external customers. It’s no secret.

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United States Retention Design Management 85

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2018

by Raméz Baassiri , author of “ Interrupted Entrepreneurship: Embracing Change In The Family Business “ Business plans – like all plans – can go awry when events beyond the control of the business owner disrupt the everyday routine. Netflix was valued at more than $32 billion only 15 years later.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 24, 2012

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Girls Who Code is working to close the tech gender gap by teaching girls 13 to 17 the skills they need for a career in technology.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. TECHNOLOGY.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2011

Look more modern than our previous website, which had a very 2000 feel to it. We wanted to stay true to our roots, which were in retail and financial services, both industries in which we invest heavily, albeit almost exclusively where there is a technology core. But we didn’t want to have a “submit your business plan” form.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip. Just don’t make a really dumb decision like building your business model around Sears as your primary customer.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 26, 2017

Yesterday, the NASDAQ crossed the 6,000 mark, its first breakthrough "round number" since 2000 when the widely followed technology index reached 5,000 for the first time. For sure, fueling the index's steep recent rise (up 17% since November 7th) has been the solid uptick in business confidence and enthusiasm since the election.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 24, 2012

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Girls Who Code is working to close the tech gender gap by teaching girls 13 to 17 the skills they need for a career in technology. Or that less than 10% of venture-backed companies have women founders.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Believe it or not, there was a time when an aspiring entrepreneur would come up with a concept, develop a detailed business plan, prototype and refine the concept, seek a credit line from a bank, and then give it a go by bringing the concept to market. Oh how times have changed.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

Getting out at that peak moment before the emergence of the Internet and video streaming technologies led to the video rental chain's infamous demise and death. At this career point as a self-made billionaire with two massive business successes, no one would have begrudged him to retire to a life of leisure and philanthropy.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Survey increased sharply in March to its highest level since December 2000, with “Consumers expressing much greater optimism regarding the short-term outlook for business, jobs and personal income prospects.” And then doing something about it.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In its latest effort to examine the intersection of mobile technology and education, the university is launching a contest for students to design an app that “supports campus life.&# He served as director for the Human Computer Interaction Lab on campus from 2000-2006.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked into an organization, they’ve got 2000 names of people that have bought products from and they’ve never sent him a thing. It’s perfect for small business. Two weeks is just criminal, that’s a dead lead. Louis Gudema: Yeah.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.   He founded RightNow Technologies in a spare bedroom in his home in 14 years ago - by bootstrapping.   Every time I look at a business opportunity – several hundred a year – the people in the business are key to success.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

3) Keiretsu Forum - Founded in 2000, it claims to be the largest angel investor network in the world. Their community has already grown to more than 500 startups and 2,500 investors. 4) New England Investment Network - This is an online forum that connects entrepreneurs in the New England states with angel investors worldwide.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 3, 2006

The problem is that the very skills that got us to the market hype (lots of vision, big thinking) were not the skills that enabled many of us to survive the downturn (tactical focus on generating revenue, conservative business plan, and execution).

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 29, 2011

His work was crucial in building Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Shortly after, he served as Director of Technology at Progress Software. John is currently a senior at Babson College. Carl Hu has over a decade of experience in IT. Later he served as CTO at AppZero. He is currently serving as principal engineer at Amazon.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of “formal business processes.” Develop your business plan.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

There were over 2000 participants and around 100 speakers from all over the world. Do companies know what your business actually is? Sometimes the market is beyond your control, so don’t worry about that, do what you are doing an execute your business plan. You can’t go big by having one technology or one product.”.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I first met Jeff about 8 years ago when he was finishing his first year at the Stanford GSB and was beginning to raise money for a business plan he developed for a secondary market ticket exchange. The Feld Technologies Professional Services Agreement. February 15, 2008 2:08 PM. Anonymous said. View my complete profile.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

The graphic is a map of “Tech Hot Spots” printed in the San Francisco Business Times (21-27 February 2014). Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. So what of the tech sector and its bubbles?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

The very cool thing about the program, and then some of the other business planning classes that we took afterwards, was we were really encouraged, I think, to look at the need and talk to the people who are experiencing that need most sort of dramatically out in the real world. Our parents we serve often are our employees.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. No investor cares about a business plan. If you’re not into business plans, as an investor, how would you decide if a startup is worth investing in (if you do in fact invest in startups)? . How I can find the right investor (software)?

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