Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. I’d like to take a step back and discuss the significance of IP as a component of the overall value that founders intend to create as they grow the company.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.

North America 120

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Internet 335

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

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. Can you become a founder by watching videos? Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc.

Incubator 332

Incubator Lean Programming Government 332

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Over the past year or so, work-for-equity arrangements have become an integral part of Arizona Bays business model.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal. We are paying small businesses to make and deliver meals to hungry people here in San Francisco during the COVID crisis. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Government Technical Review Community 60

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. These include: ·       Vesting of Founder Stock.   Why is this fair? .

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

Operations 177

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 177

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The two founders, Lucinda Lent and Juliet Bodystun wanted to raise $150,000 in return for 15% of the company in order to franchise their concept nationwide. Even after paying the two founders $100,000 collectively in salary, the business still made a profit in the $125,000 to $150,000 range.

Covenant 162

Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 162

Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For those of you old enough to remember, think about Jimmy Treybig, the founder of Tandem, whose VC, Tom Perkins, said something like "when the Tandem computer system performed as expected, (i.e.,   Another example that comes to mind is Yieldex and Doug Cosman, its Boulder-based founder.

Technology 74

Technology Marketing Intellectual Property Montana 74

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The founders have more demand than they know what to do with, and want to raise $55k for 5% equity in the company to buy a second truck. The founders claimed that their deep relationships in Maine allowed them to get the best possible prices on lobster, and that this is their defensible advantage. Freaker USA.

Pre-Money Valuation 101

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Differentiation 101

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. “This one is just so much fun.”

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011. Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. ▼ 2011. (7).

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

Entrepreneur 63

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 63

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

My goal is to some day get an honorary degree for kicking ass in business. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. If you’re looking to find / earn a technical co-founder then Andrew’s article is the best read.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Israel’s ranking in the’s Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 increased to 24th place from 27th the year before. TAKADU NAMED WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM TECHNOLOGY PIONEER 2011. The World Economic Forum selected TaKaDu, a water infrastructure monitoring leader, as a Technology Pioneer 2011. For previous editions, click here.

United Kingdom 96

United Kingdom Austria Global 96

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Music licensing remains a sticky, overly complicated tar pit; business models that provide sustainable value to all stakeholders along the chain have not yet been achieved; the fire hose approach of inundating the average listener with tens of millions of songs is a failed user experience. Digital Music by Country. .

North America 155

North America Norway Sweden Japan 155

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. VivoText - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Thu Apr 28 09:56:38 -0700 2011. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team. Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. a tornado of razorblades. by Adam Wiggins. How To Scale a Development Team. organizations.

Developer 92

Developer Database Architecture API 92

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other detriments to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions. Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.”.When

Naming 40

Naming Technical Review Product Product Name 40

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Plastiq is focused on extending the use of credit cards into high-value transactions like school tuition, buying a car, or rent/condo payments with a unique economic and transaction model. ” I think the crux of SQUARE’s business model is obviating the need for merchants to have an acquirer account with a bank.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Thus, I have come to the conclusion that if I could help a million entrepreneurs globally reach $1 million in revenue (and beyond), that would be the foundation of a robust, distributed, and sustainable economic value creation that would add up to a trillion dollars in global GDP. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We did GroupMe for around three years, turned into a company and ended up selling it to Skype for around eighty million dollars and that was in 2011. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. Bates: Fantastic.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. free, distributed source code control management system. TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents â?? Founder Equity Issues. Business plan.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. “Over the Top&# video distribution – Apple TV comes out in November and is priced at $99.

Distribution 386

Distribution Audience Video Internet 386