2011 Business Model Channel Incubator 
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 14, 2011
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. At the roundtable, five entrepreneurs pitched their businesses to me, and I interacted with them in our usual format, with active participation from the audience. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues. At 11 a.m.,
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Steve Blank
JULY 13, 2021
Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. The reality is that most business plans don’t survive first contact with customers. experiential.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2019
The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2012
We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. Methodology. Lessons Learned.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.
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