Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. Yet this system isn’t perfect. – seems like another planet. Until today. billion U.S.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 30, 2018

Here, a great (and for most mature small businesses, under-utilized) solution is to “strengthen the balance sheet” through an outside capital raise. that solid balance sheet enables a more strategic analysis of the opportunity’s value, versus approaching it from a place of financial scarcity.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory - income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models - seems like another planet. And they'll do this using the business model-customer development-agile development solution stack.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

If your business model (i.e., “how If you are raising money to start or grow your business, you need to include the details of what you need in the executive summary. For example, if you are producing a medical device, you will have milestones associated with clinical testing and government approval processes.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

What business schools can provide is an opportunity to learn a set of skills that can be helpful on the entrepreneurial journey. MBA programs teach valuable analytical skills that can help you evaluate and refine strategies and business models. But while this is valuable, none of it is the actual learning of entrepreneurship.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

What business schools can provide is an opportunity to learn a set of skills that can be helpful on the entrepreneurial journey. MBA programs teach valuable analytical skills that can help you evaluate and refine strategies and business models. But while this is valuable, none of it is the actual learning of entrepreneurship.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

We are a better humanity thanks to the work of journalists, I hope the industry finds a sustainable business model. Government: California Department of Motor Vehicles. I love governments! A much more detailed collection of recommendations I’d written for the Government of Belgium a little while back.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It is a constantly coordinated, ongoing set of relationships with customers, government officials, craftspeople, and your internal people. There’s no one model—or one business plan—for breweries. Each brewery will have its own unique model and plan. Relationships. Brewing is not a solo endeavor. Is it losses?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

It is a constantly coordinated, ongoing set of relationships with customers, government officials, craftspeople, and your internal people. There’s no one model—or one business plan—for breweries. Each brewery will have its own unique business model and business plan. Find trusted advisors. Is it losses?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

You need to make sure that by the 15th of the month you know how well your business did last month. You need to learn how to read financial statements, statements of cash flow, balance sheets, a profit and loss statement. You really just have to evaluate … This is the thing I want to say about buying an existing business.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2016

As you refine your business model, you can quickly update your pitch without wasting a lot of time. Government datasets and makes them easy to search and use. If you can use TurboTax, you can use LivePlan, and you won’t have to worry about a potential investor finding an error in your business plan. For the U.S.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Understanding this, historically, the government has enacted a number of policies to improve access to public markets and home ownership, such as many changes to the tax code and legislation that famously made 401(k)s opt-out instead of opt-in (lesson: intelligent defaults can change the world). in addition to home ownership.

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