VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker. This is where new startups can help.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Are you a startup struggling to optimize your sales and revenues because of the Coronavirus pandemic? Do you know how you can sustain your business, improve sales, and pay-off salaries even during the pandemic? In 2020, social media has evolved into a platform, which can help you with-. Build your credibility on search engines.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. GrillGrate. She wants to sell these products on her site.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

While the basic premise is compelling, and I am very interested in entrepreneurship opportunities in this area, the business model is flawed. Some of these businesses should definitely apply for the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge grants. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Bolpur is home to the Viswabharati university, as well as several other small engineering and professional colleges. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India.

Cloud 117

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation. My assessment is that this is a good company that should be able to raise money at this point.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. Cortese Design Bags. The Free Rider Problem.

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Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

eCommerce has become a major business , so it’s no surprise you’re considering joining the 7.9 million online businesses that sell products via the web. Research published by Statista in March 2021 showed revenue from eCommerce in the United States reached $431.6 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $563.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Provide specifics on the customer business model. They want to see revenue to share in the return.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I detected a major flaw in Kiran's business model assumption. She is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and strategy consultant who writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is the author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. Persistent is breaking out of the mold of labor arbitrage, and looking at new and exciting business models. million in revenue.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Technology impacts all facets of human life, and sometimes it can save it. That’s the mission driving products like Hemafuse , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020? and Indian companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Current worldwide statistics as of 10 May 2020, (from gisanddata.maps) show that there are over 10 million people infected with this virus and just over 503, 500 deaths. Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization purposes? Please use the comments below to give your thoughts and analyses on why you think Twitter is not using the affiliate business model to monetize its immense traffic. This is a question I would like to address to you guys as well. Photo by ilco.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. They make a lot of money, and nothing in Anuj's business model convinced me that these people have any interest or incentive to go around teaching, especially in rural India. I asked him to abandon this idea and find a better one.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

In our Business Incubator series of interviews, we have invited many leaders from the industry to come share their best practices and challenges with us. We have also facilitated open discussions on Why Do Business Incubators Fail and Incubator Business Models , which turned out to be animated, active and extremely constructive discussions.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

An ad-supported network, the company has achieved over $1 million in revenue and is profitable. The business model Adarsh is proposing is a per lead compensation structure, which seems perfectly reasonable. However, the business is at a pure concept stage and most of the details are yet to be fleshed out. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. My question was around the size of the catalog that can be pulled together that will render affiliate commissions and will meet quality standards of this business. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Soren's answer is ambiguous, even though his value proposition and business model are relatively clear and well thought through. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Again, the issue of for-profit versus nonprofit came up. Photo by svilen001.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

With NVIDIA’s Israel-1 AI supercomputer, a broad range of innovative companies in Israel will create AI that can transform the productivity and business models of enterprises around the world.” Kooply , a game development engine in stealth, was of the 20 winners of the 2024 Game Changers list by Lightspeed Ventures.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital 78

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Siddhesh has already validated his business and is catering to home buyers, sellers, and brokers, generating revenues from advertising and sponsorships as well as brokerage revenue sharing. As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. He wants to penetrate the Indian market.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses. 14 – Concept Behind the Business Model. Image Credit: Jessica Festa.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. could be your companion.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Discuss.

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Bootstrapping San Jose Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 124

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. 2) Business model-defined funds. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . No ideas or prototypes.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

Haystack

JANUARY 13, 2020

How could Twilio become a public company with an API-driven business model? I saw a tweet lamenting the acquisition price of Plaid as “crazy” because it was 35x revenue. Consider recently PayPal paid $4B for Honey; Prudential bought Assurance for $3.5B; and Fidelity paying $35B for Worldpay. 2/ API FTW.

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Acquisition Cap Table API Venture Capital 74

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. However, in 2020 I joined Innovators for Biden and founded the campaign’s Ambassadors at Large initiative. Invest in business models that otherwise could not access VC.

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