Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. I support her assertion that a business model consists of at least the first seven of the following ten basic elements: Value proposition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea. The same concept resulted in the birth of franchises, which are essentially proven business models transported to new locations.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

Pexels CCO License Research Demand Next, you should make sure that you are researching deamnd in your business model. There are lots of ways to reduce levels of wastage in your business. This is a great way to keep your business green and great over the next few years.

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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? Their business was a robot lawn mower. Feeling Good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

This occurs when a new product, service, or business model renders the old way of doing business obsolete. It used to happen only a few times per century, but now I see disruptive innovation highlighted in almost every business plan I read. Customers and employees are the new stakeholders for every business.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

At a tactical level, companies can improve their customer segmentation and personalize marketing and sales experiences. IKEA now has a home solar offering that enables customers to generate their own renewable energy; it also shifted to renewable plastics and offers sustainable, healthy food in its restaurants. Plan accordingly.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 30, 2020

Make sure to set your sights further afield as well, by looking towards your indirect competition and businesses that aren’t in the same industry as you. Just because they offer a different product or service, that doesn’t mean that you cannot apply and implement their most effective strategies into your own business models.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2019

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea. The same concept resulted in the birth of franchises, which are essentially proven business models transported to new locations.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Planning ahead is crucial if you plan to run a landscaping company that takes a green approach to its operations. You’ll need to research the type of lawn care tools you should purchase to align with your goal of respecting Mother Nature and lay the foundation for your business to succeed. . Name of your business.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

The premise of the class is that startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model. The EngineKites customer discovery narrative blog is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

And part of what they’re looking for is how you adapt to the business you’re building over time. But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. I had seen enough.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Building Loyalty The Lady Gaga Way: Focus On 1% Of Your Customers | Forbes – [link]. It’s difficult to fake corporate culture | Business Insider – [link]. How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link]. The Business Plan. – [link].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

And they were absolutely convinced what the world needed was an auto-driving lawn mover for institutions with large green spaces. Students need to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week. Like all great Silicon Valley companies they started with a technology and guessed who the customers will be.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Conceived in my Princeton dorm room, TerraCycle’s original business model of worm poop fertilizer was like a lightbulb going on in my head: we could take the school’s food waste, feed it to worms, get beautiful worm poop, and sell it. Thanks to Reginald Swift, Rubix LS ! #9- 9- People, Planet, and Profit. Photo Credit: Tom Szaky.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2017

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea. The same concept resulted in the birth of franchises, which are essentially proven business models transported to new locations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2013

This occurs when a new product, service, or business model renders the old way of doing business obsolete. It used to happen only a few times per century, but now I see disruptive innovation highlighted in almost every business plan I read. Customers and employees are the new stakeholders for every business.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2014

Let’s meet the baking business owners: Michelle Green, who owns Three Sweeties bakery, offers tips for success. Michelle Green started baking when she was a teen, but it wasn’t until she was well into her corporate career that she realized baking was her true calling. Plan Your Bakery. Write a business plan.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Last week the teams tested their Revenue Models hypotheses: what are customers willing to pay for? Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. This looks like a race to the wire.

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entrepreMusings

MAY 2, 2012

Following is a guest post by Amanda Green. Amanda writes extensively on the subjects of business and personal finance. 3 Quirky Business Ideas That May Just Be Brilliant. You can be standing in line for ice cream and voila—new business plan. Great ideas come from anywhere. It’s like magic sometimes!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

But that doesn’t mean they don’t work really hard to mitigate risk, including before they even start their new business. Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate Writing a business plan is a must; failed entrepreneurs rarely take that step.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

It’s good advice; the theory being that entrepreneurs can discover the flaws in their business models sooner, make course corrections and move in a more favorable direction. In my case as a young software entrepreneur, I had a different approach: Fail Locally, one customer at a time. And I would learn customer service.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

These customers weren’t just looking for junk removal. This mission is shared openly on our website, with potential franchisees, customers, and employees. From who we hire to planning out which strategic initiatives we’ll invest in, e very decision we consider supports making this goal a reality. Business model.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When my father had his business plan all set up, he brought it to the rabbi and got a benediction for a successful business. When he left the neighborhood, he decided that because he got a benediction from the rabbi in Crown Heights, he’d name his business (CrownTV’s parent company) Crown Heights.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. small business CRM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

It also helps to keep track of the business sectors VCs are focusing on. Green investments jumped 55% and 134% on a deals and dollars basis, respectively, vs. Q4 ‘09. Mass mailing your business plan to every VC in the book won’t get you any credibility or traction. Create an investment-grade business plan.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2013

And even if the intoxicated customer decides to call their own taxi for a ride home, where do they leave their car overnight, and how do they return to claim their car the next day? ” Adapting the business model for a nonprofit service. “I’ve used it before for business planning,” he said.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Last week, I wrote about the Business Physical and of the importance of evaluating a business’ “red,” “yellow,” and “green” areas and proceeding, changing, and innovating accordingly. As I wrote that post, the most surprising presidential election result of my lifetime took place. Challenge the Conventional Wisdom.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I don’t have any formal business training and I actually think it’s served me well. Read great books / especially business biographies. Talk to your customers. How do I stay motivated?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

So we should do a business plan for optimization. Anybody has a business plan? This is this is a simple e-commerce business model. Look at this, green is a traditional shoe retailer, making nearly 300 million a year. Anybody thinks it has a high customer service, maybe quality leader.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2016

My grandfather was a successful business owner and mentored me at an early age as we partnered in a vegetable garden/retail business during the summer months. The business began as is common with the mowing of residential lawns. Food is a way to connect everyone, regardless of our world views, history, beliefs or experiences.

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