Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 11, 2022
New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 9, 2017
New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. To be fair, in the 20 th century, there really wasn’t a model for how to build startups other than write plan, raise money, and execute – the bubble was this method, on steroids.
Steve Blank
APRIL 4, 2011
This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) The Business Model Canvas is a great way to diagram it out. They acquired quantitative data by going through the 2008 Agricultural Census.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Solving the "marketplace" business model - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 10, 2010 A sizable percentage of Capital Factory startup submissions take the form of the "marketplace." " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 13, 2019
New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.
Up and Running
MAY 10, 2017
We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. In hindsight, it’s understandable that friends and family were skeptical when we told them about our business. We’d never hired anyone. We’d never had anyone pay us for a product or a service.
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