Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

New competitors are about to arrive and it is not Uber, Lift, Didi, Hola, GoGet or new car rental startups. They are mostly about lazy incumbents taking advantage of a glitch as long as they possibly can. The post Trickery as a Business Model – Rental Cars appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

Business Model 48

Business Model Technical Review Hiring Technology 48

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

How many other businesses are already serving this market? . What are you passionate about? Remember, first impressions are everything about online businesses, so ensure your site looks professional and trustworthy. Make them interesting so that they will be found by people who don’t know about your site yet.

B2B 131

B2B Developer Technical Review Business Model 131

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Fortunately, many of the top VCs share their thoughts on their blogs and are full of advice for startups, both big and small. Here’s a list of our favorite VC blogs, in alphabetical order. I like to follow these blogs through Feedly, but you can often sign up to get email alerts for new posts from most of these blogs.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Here’s Ron’s blog post. His latest book is Simply Effective.

Business Model 334

Business Model Technical Review Business Plan Search 334

The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 3, 2010

If you have a very capital intensive or labor intensive business model you will need a large base of funding to get off the ground. But for most start-ups, you may be able to adjust your business model enough to cut the funding you need, while still making a successful launch. 2005 to $4.4 We did that with 8.

Bootstrapping 75

Bootstrapping Business Model Software Review Programming 75

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. Scarcity – less is more. First Moment of Truth.

Customer 306

Customer Technical Review Social Media Social Network 306

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 10, 2010

Please forgive me for harping on about outsourcing in so many blog posts recently. If you haven’t caught the latest John Reese video, the third in the series talks about the six online business models and how you can outsource the tasks involved to make them work. This is about to change. tech needs.

Business Model 75

Business Model Affiliate Philippines Syndicate 75

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the year 2022, would blogs still be useful? In this day and age of social media, is it worthwhile to devote time and resources to your corporate blog or to start one. Blogging became a popular business internet strategy a few years ago. Blogging is still a powerful marketing tool. Nothing has changed since then.

Audience 163

Audience Reputation Channel Social Media 163

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is talking about the fact that there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today, and how their innovative idea could make them one of the next ones. Minimize one-time sales in your business model. The big question is how you can beat these odds.

Merger 386

Merger Software Review Acquisition Social Media 386

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. What I like about the dynamics of 1M/1M today is that we're starting to see entrepreneurs make definitive progress.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Affiliate 115

View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

I think VCs will gravitate even more towards repeat founders with prior success, and will be more gun shy about backing someone that is difficult to reference within their networks. Business Models and Sectors. This gets really challenging if it remains difficult to meet in person or to travel.

Early Stage 375

Early Stage Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence 375

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Here’s Ron’s blog post. His latest book is Simply Effective.

Business Model 226

Business Model Business Plan Technical Review Search 226

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Read Business Model Generation pages 1-72, and The Four Steps to the Epiphany Chapter 3. Step 1: Set Up Team Logistics.

Lean 334

Lean Web Coder Business Model 334

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It would be easy to just put up the video and the transcription in this blog and be done with it. We have gotten extremely good about building a force around very small numbers of very expensive exquisite, heavily manned and hard to replace military systems. This entire class session was a talk by Chris and Q&A with the students.

Technical Review 394

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology United States 394

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2 nd Annual International Business Model Competition , hosted by Professor Nathan Furr , and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. Tools to help them manage the search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Business Model 267

Business Model Customer Development Utah Business Plan 267

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It’s an interesting research project and I recommend the book and Ali’s blog post “Land of the Super Founders “, if you want to dive deeper. “unique business models” – Successful startups develop business models that are difficult for competitors to replicate.

Founder 88

Founder Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation 88

Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

1) A new technology + (2) A new business model If we only have one, the incumbents can usually adapt. They can plug the new tech into the existing business model. Or, they can revert the old technology into a new business model. Each time they sold the new tech in the old business model.

ChatGPT 90

ChatGPT Technical Review Generative AI Azure 90

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I recently received this unsolicited email from Craig Shinney (slightly edited to protect identities) – I just wanted to write to tell you that about one year ago, I started getting into Internet marketing and experimenting with all sorts of different methods of the various types of blogs and tools that all the different marketers recommend.

Vertical 80

Vertical Business Model PPC Internet 80

Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

5- Business model innovations Photo Credit: Bram Jansen New forms of commerce and sources of income are becoming possible thanks to technological advancements. especially, there's been a huge social movement of people starting a business. Thanks to Andrii Pominav, Digital Skills Blog ! #16- Thanks to James Angel, DYL ! #5-

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology Entrepreneur 105

View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from. You have a point of view on emerging technology and business models, and you are not afraid to voice your conviction. About NextView. Check out our blog for how we think about company building and investing.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Think about it for a second, since the introduction of ChatGPT, do you find yourself Googling more or less? Challenges galore Like any tech advancement at scale, to succeed in this endeavour requires deep pockets: cloud resources and costly GPUs, expensive AI engineers and a working business model, all of which Google already has.

Generative AI 174

Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 24, 2011

Learning the truth (and debunking the myths) of passive income has been a personal quest of mine since I started blogging in 2008. It’s time we set the record straight and get to the bottom of what passive income is really all about. Over the years, I’ve watched so many friends and colleagues (including myself! ) I’m netting $0.01

Affiliate 98

Affiliate Dividend Revenue Channel 98

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? Consider if their business worth pursuing? Feeling Good.

Business Model 238

Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany 238

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?

Business Model 120

Business Model Revenue Channel Community 120

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2020

This got me thinking: What if these small businesses could hire a skilled Multimedia Designer per project-based assignments? They determine the budget and we negotiate together what all will come in the package, be it edited video clips, blog posts, motion graphics, etc. Building homes is about building people.

Kentucky 105

Kentucky Louisville Entrepreneur Technical Review 105

Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We used to have pretend meetings to talk about business and entrepreneurship. Ross helped me understand social media, blogging, and the emerging business models the internet was facilitating. And they all have one thing in common – They were all younger than me. I call them my Reverse Mentors.

Romania 62

Romania Viral Cofounder Australia 62

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

One thing is certain, your business can succeed if you can put in the right energy and bring in the right people to kick-start it. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the companies they’re starting in 2023 and here are the responses. #1- Also trending are housewares that are bespoke, unexpected, and conversational.

Software Review 117

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 117

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% Of course not all people will find out about the product from advertisement! Early in a company’s life, you don’t know anything.

Business Model 120

Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” No, the conversation was about to get more interesting. We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. The class textbooks were “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany and Business Model Generation.”).

Incubator 307

Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 307

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Get Out of the Building and test the Business Model.

Lean 304

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 304

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship. Startup Blog: Arctic Startup. Business Angels: FiBAn , Sitra. It’s hard enough to pick which existing companies with known business models to aid. Part 2 with more observations about Finland and the Lessons Learned will follow shortly.

Finland 328

Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 328

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. Scarcity – less is more. First Moment of Truth.

Customer 213

Customer Technical Review Social Media Social Network 213

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Recently, Statista revealed that most Americans have voice assistants at home, about 60%. In pursuing personalization, companies, and brands should not forget about the sensitive issue of data protection , which will likely be a trend in 2023 and beyond. It is about growth and development — nothing more, nothing less.

eCommerce 185

eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

Hunter Walker

JUNE 17, 2022

Jared’s a really talented NYC entrepreneur who recently started blogging more. Tough Love’ is about being good at giving hard feedback, especially as an investor. In this post Alexandr talks about when he felt that first within Scale.ai, how he communicated it to the team, and his philosophy on maintaining it.

Cofounder 73

Cofounder Web Partner Business Model 73

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. So the real rule is outsource everything that isn’t core and isn’t needed to learn about what is core. Since every business is slightly different the functions and whether to outsource will be different for each.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

I headed to Google to search for “best transcription software” and read some blog posts that reviewed the best options. From there, I read case studies on the company blog before eventually signing up. From there, I read case studies on the company blog before eventually signing up. most commonly popped up.

Lead Generation 94

Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94