Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

The reality is that successful businesses these days require an equally elegant business model, with the right marketing, delivery channel, price, and target customers, to get real traction. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment.

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Product Advisory Board Business Model Cofounder 137

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Some of the engineers figuring if the founder was declaring they were toast in 90 days were updating their resumes. And that’s where the problem was. A Pivot a Week.

Founder 316

Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 316

The Startup Magazine

MAY 28, 2019

We talked to the founders of Embargo a while ago and wanted to catch-up to see how the platform has developed. Collectively, the founders realised the ideal solution was to foster a better connectivity and relationship between venues and customers via an easy to use app and create a CRM platform for venues to drive business.

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Advisory Board Angel Investor Startup Cofounder 91

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

Customer discovery turns founders’ initial hypotheses about their market and customers into facts. Here’s how: Develop the Product for the Few, Not the Many. Here’s how: Develop the Product for the Few, Not the Many. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates.

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Customer Advisory Board Engineer Cofounder 119

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. It’s that important.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

We have a unique business model that allows us to be the most competitive lender in the space, by either working with lending partners or originating the loans ourselves. From entry-level employees to managers to entrepreneurs, the only way to create long-term sustainability is to develop people who will continue to lead.

Papua New Guinea 64

Papua New Guinea Hawaii Advisory Board Churn Rate 64

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. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. Of course HP did ship new products and innovate, but their center of innovation was sustaining innovation , around the core of their existing business.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

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. That aesthetic took decades to develop. That’s the beauty of a great content business.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45