Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily. Do startups have a manual?

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Lean Silicon Valley Forecast Technical Review 147

Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Both my parents worked as hard as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur but with a different definition of a successful business model; when they made a profit, they could feed our family. When business was bad they figured out why, adapted and worked harder still. All searching for a sustainable business model.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Develop a forecast: Basic forecasts and budgets are critical; tracking them is even more so. The idea here was that business plan should no longer be just a single event. Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved toward a more agile planning process.

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Lean Silicon Valley Business Model Forecast 60

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

If that were the case, most of the Cable and Wireless companies who have been using a similar business model would have gone bankrupt a long time ago and Saleforce would not have 20% FCF margins today. It is true that understanding this new business model is hard for a traditional software incumbent, as this interview demonstrates.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” The term “impact investment” was coined in 2007 — an approach that deliberately builds intangible assets alongside tangible, financial ones. Sir Ronald Cohen. Source: Fundera .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

No business model, either. Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. All my products and ideas focus on early cash and a business model that works from the first day. So, the idea of starting without a business model is good ?

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