Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Your business is yours alone. Solicit venture capital investors. Fund your startup yourself.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. We’ve built up strength in executing our business model, not creating new ones. It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. I think this is a question on many minds, and we discussed it today as a core topic. Hope to see you there! About Sramana Mitra.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Your business is yours alone. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we started off by discussing the pre-incubation procedure we are recommending with audience members from different parts of the world. This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs; people participating in startrup incubator or accelerator programs; and bootstrappers. But travel, particularly for early-stage and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are physically far away, can be hard to swing. I''ve tried a few ideas of my own in the past, and tried to help my friends with their ideas.

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Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

on a regular series of posts where we would collect a bunch of questions from the local tech community and respond to a few that I think are relevant to a reasonably broad group of readers. Third, when you have PMF and growth, and you find yourself needing to really build a repeatable business model.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Ning Communities. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. On-line Communities. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Israeli Center of Incubators. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Survey Monkey.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I've learned more in the three months working with a real-life entrepreneur on a new venture than in all 5 years of Community College and my BA. Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Over approximately 100 roundtables, I have personally coached more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs, and between the free and the premium program, as well as the blog, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn we have a community of more than 200,000 people engaged in the initiative at various levels. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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