Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community. Minimize one-time sales in your business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

This can happen through early marketing, independent of whether you have yet delivered a single product, proven your business model, or have any real customers. Early examples of traction for any solution, especially free ones, would include website traffic, number of blog comments, likes, downloads, and active user rates.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

But the risk to founders is that these investors may not be very committed partners and might quickly disengage if things go sideways. Business Models and Sectors. I think the level of signaling risk from series A VCs doing seeds will be higher in a FOLD world. In a FOLD world, this is going to continue.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have a point of view on emerging technology and business models, and you are not afraid to voice your conviction. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. Check out our blog for how we think about company building and investing. About NextView.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2020

It is, without any doubt, a top-notch business to start in 2021. In 2021, I’ll launch The Expat Partner Coach LLC to empower expat partners to live purposeful and positive lives abroad. Thanks to Linda Mueller, The Expat Partner Coach LLC ! #5- 9- Another blogging business. 4- Coaching. 7- Mobile app.

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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.

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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). It’s worth reading the blog post that became the manifesto of the class here as well as what we learned when we first taught it- here.). Class Velocity/Depth.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. In addition to getting plugged into the ecosystem’s network, the first role of the Outpost is to partner. In what order?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 6, 2021

When a company is pitching a VC, there is typically one partner who is the advocate for the deal and is shepherding the process. Part of what I like about working with my partners is that I really believe that our collective decision-making is better than our decision-making as individuals.

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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.

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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.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2020

Since then, we’ve served 500+ unique customers, worked with 10+ space partners, pivoted our business model from B2C to B2B, signed on advisers, and have raised money from outside investors. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos kudos to ya’ll.

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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-

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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. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 17, 2022

Jared’s a really talented NYC entrepreneur who recently started blogging more. When it comes to company building, I want to partner with someone who tells it how it is and isn’t afraid to hurt my feelings than someone who prioritizes simply being liked. Tough Love by Jared Hecht (Fundera and GroupMe cofounder). Entrepreneurs crave it.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. There are no seminal books and few insightful blogs for them to turn to. And given the paucity of business metrics at this point in a startup’s lifecycle, spreadsheet analysis is of little help.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

If ABM gives your ideal customer everything they want and need to become a long-term partner, is there actually a need for lead generation? I headed to Google to search for “best transcription software” and read some blog posts that reviewed the best options. Lead generation gets people through the door. most commonly popped up.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. First, we brought all 21 teams to Stanford for 3-days of 10 hour-a-day classes in business model design and customer development. billion U.S.

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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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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s argued that social entrepreneurship is the new business model due its ability to help one connect with the world and live a purposeful life while serving others. It also improves the image of business through collaborations and fosters relationships for a better society. 4- Created a new kind of cause-driven business.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. My partners will tell you that I am an incredibly impatient person. You want someone who will challenge you and be an intellectual sparring partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. Some have actually established new startups with tested business model hypotheses under their belt. I am confident we will see real startups and business emerge soon. ————-.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. While I authored this blog post, this class is a team project. It Takes A Village.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px. They have raised now a total of $22 million. And by helping save my Thanksgiving this year.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). BTW, Angel investors do not have limited partners, and often invest for reasons other than just for financial gain (e.g., The Deal With the Devil. Successful Clinical trials?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) as well as channel partners and cloud industry technology consultants. The Business Model Canvas is a great way to diagram it out.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 21, 2022

My website is SadieSmiley.com and I have a coaching program called Passive Income Pathways where I teach my clients to make 6-figures with their blogs. While many coaches make their full-time income just from coaching, I also build blogs while my clients are building their blogs. Thanks to Sadie Smiley, Sadie Smiley ! #8-

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Board Effect

AUGUST 25, 2021

As a word of caution, community banks need to be aware of their role in the partnership as not to lose their customers to the new partner. Continue evolving the community bank business model. Fintech partnerships benefit both parties.

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