Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 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. Board meetings that guide startups haven’t changed since the early 1900’s. The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

magazine is publishing a 12-part series of excerpts from The Startup Owner’s Manual , the new step-by-step “how to” guide for startups. They learn from the results of each test, refine the hypothesis, and test again—all in search of a repeatable, scalable, and profitable business model.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

Ideally, create a visual map of the structure of your analysis, so readers can understand the logic of your model. Datavore is a New York startup which is working to improve on the functionality of existing tools like Microsoft Excel by creating a visual display of the calculations comprising complex analyses such as a financial model.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

We now understand the distinction between startups – who search for a business model – versus existing companies – that execute a business plan. But to teach startup entrepreneurship we need to teach students new skills. On Fire With A Vision. Lessons Learned.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2022

In fact, one of the top reasons why new businesses fail is due to bad business planning. And it’s not just for startups. Established businesses benefit greatly from revisiting their business plan. An often overlooked purpose of a business plan is as a tool to define success metrics.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Beyond understanding your business strategy, investors will also want to understand your financial forecasts. They want to know how your business will function from a financial standpoint — what is typically called your “ business model.” A vision for the future. Where do you see your company going in the future?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

Revenue multiples, profit multiples, premium over the previous financing — these are metrics used by sellers to help determine a minimum acceptable price. In terms of acquisition, they ask more specifically: “How can we trade balance sheet assets (cash, equity) in exchange for executing our strategy better?”.

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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. Board meetings that guide startups haven't changed since the early 1900's. The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. Here's how.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. Freed received the first scholarship created from a sustainable-business model by the collaboration of EALgreen, WW Grainger, Inc. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Defining the problem you’re trying to solve is an important part of your business plan because it’s the first place where you’ll demonstrate that idea is viable—that you can actually make money with your business model and idea. Share of the Market (SOM) : Your SOM is who you will reach in your first few years of business.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. If you’ve accomplished some key milestones in the process of building your business, detail them here. 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. Read more ».

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” A multiple is a company value divided by a metric.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Consider this example: Pleasant Acres Real Estate, LLC (PARE) is a startup company located in El Paso, Texas. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This won’t be a guide about how to make beer—we’re pretty sure that if you want to start a brewery, you’ve got a handle on that—but it will help you identify other aspects of the business you have to have in order to make it possible for you to brew your dream beer day in and day out. The most important detail is defining a clear vision. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. Watch the 30-minute interview to hear why but summary notes below.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

No matter its size or age, every brewery was once a startup. They’re constantly hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. Banks are not consistent sources of startup capital.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). When we started this class, the concept of Lean (business models, customer development, agile, pivots, mvp’s) was new to everyone. Class Velocity/Depth.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

I know that one of my colleagues on the line is going to post the link to a great article about how to write a good one-page business plan. You should have a good solid executive summary, you should have full financials, and that means a projected balance sheet, P&L and cash flow. There’s a lot of chambers of commerce.

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