Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. The one caveat about online commerce is that while Chinese users will buy physical goods online ( Taobao is huge), they seem to hate to pay for music or software, and the model for games seems to be moving to free play with in-app-purchases for accessories and powers. business models.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Customers gleefully avoid the Blockbuster none-of-these-look-good-just-pick-one-already-zombie-walk — and NetFlix just put Blockbuster out of business — but is this a workable business model? Turning a profit at a growing company is nearly impossible regardless of business model.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The 21 NSF teams had been out of the classroom for just 15 hours as they filed back in with their business model canvas presentations. Their assignment appeared (to them) to be deceptively simple: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. The one caveat about online commerce is that while Chinese users will buy physical goods online ( Taobao is huge), they seem to hate to pay for music or software, and the model for games seems to be moving to free play with in-app-purchases for accessories and powers. business models.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Templeman advises and challenges small business owners to consistently consider such opportunities to help larger companies innovate. The post Take Advantage of a New Trend: Big Business Looks to Small to Innovate appeared first on Bplans Blog. Managing a Business Operations Strategy' See Also Innovate!

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

For example, if you’re a prolific writer and love dogs particularly small breeds, perhaps the world could learn a lot from you about taking care of these little dogs via your dog-centric blog. Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Patent and Trademark Office).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2017

Thus you need to build a working prototype, and project total costs, a winning business model, and real growth opportunity. A good social cause doesn’t always imply a viable business. With interactive social media and blogging, you have every opportunity to test and tune your idea before spending any real money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works. Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

If you have a proven business model with some sales, it’s credible to apply a multiplier of five to 10 times this number for the first element of valuation. Registered intellectual property adds value. A rule of thumb used by investors is that real intellectual property can justify an additional $1 million in valuation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works. Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Marketing is top priority.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) Check your ego firmly at the door when evaluating business models.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. Lessons Learned Your business concept is not a company. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works. Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Marketing is top priority.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Their business model was to provide retailers with a new interface for shopping for soft goods — something that hasn’t changed a whole lot since Web 1.0. If you’re interested in that discussion, my advisor and mentor, Brad Feld has written extensively about software patents on his blog.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 8, 2013

Every day I see entrepreneurs trying to find that right balance between keeping their intellectual property confidential while sharing and promoting their business model - especially to investors - whose interest they so very much need to pique. Investing Jay Turo'

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm. You are writing about the essentials of business. I really like the focus of your blog.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

We werent able to declare a winner, but I did agree to write a blog post on the topic. Depending on how the transaction is structured, investors could block a financing and potentially take over the intellectual property. Blog Archive. My Blog List. nice article, thanks. May 14, 2011 2:39 PM. Anonymous said.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Todays Small Business News | Daily. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Intellectual Property. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Email address: Home.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and blogs at steveblank.com. And they'll do this using the business model-customer development-agile development solution stack. They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research. billion U.S. Join the I-Corps?.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 9, 2012

Every day I see entrepreneurs trying to find that right balance between keeping their intellectual property confidential while sharing and promoting their business model with partners - especially investors - whose interest they so very much need to pique. read more.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 3, 2018

Key Lesson: It is easy to be “snarky” and cynical about the potential of highly hyped new business models like cryptocurrency, cannabis, and the like, but there are real companies making real dollars in these fast-emerging businesses. But when it hits it pays off bigger than anything else we can possibly do in our business. #3.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) Check your ego firmly at the door when evaluating business models.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 16, 2013

The most cited answer among investors – and perhaps the most underrated factor among first time entrepreneurs – is the startup team.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. Note: All of my advice in this blog is that of a layman. Just wanted to let you know that after a 2min meeting we decided to post extracts of your article on the blog of our consulting Firm. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 9, 2013

When developing a business plan and business model, it is important to look beyond the product/service/competitive advantages and try to establish advantages that are truly sustainable. The following are some tips to help you with this process: Intellectual Property. While all I.P.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Innovation – Business Model? Business Development – What type of partnership or whole product is needed? Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Blog at WordPress.com. Where do the ideas come from? Technology?

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

 He also, of course, invented some very cool algortithms that make up a substantial intellectual property base.  He also, of course, invented some very cool algortithms that make up a substantial intellectual property base. Subscribe to this blogs feed. Startup ideas. The Entrepreneurial Mind.

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chrissundberg.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I’ve been hearing lots of people talk about starting their own businesses recently and would like to quell some of the misinformation that I’ve heard circulating. The Myth: You need an NDA to protect your intellectual property. The Myth: You need an NDA to protect your intellectual property.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

Your business model has to truly be similar to the company you are referencing. If you aren’t solving some problem in the world, you are going to have a long uphill climb with your business. Some businesses have key strategic partnerships that are critical to their success. “We’re the Netflix for Video Games”.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. See their blog post on multiples.).

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

What are their expectations for intellectual property-protectable businesses? What are their expectations for intellectual property-protectable businesses? Subscribe to this blogs feed. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money.

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