Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range.

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Revenue Valuation Viral Retention 434

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. While there are 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access, 74% of Chinese Internet users make less than $500/month and are students, blue-collar workers or jobless.

China 327

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 327

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

The rub is that a startup likely has the ideas to take it straight to the top, but it’s also likely that the company lacks the business skills to make it truly successful. Right now, Silicon Valley has a highly creative pool of talent, but there is a blaringly obvious missing link between creativity and business. Who does it help?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2013

As trends begin to head in the right direction, businesses that make smart decisions today will see considerable results over the coming years. Here, we take a look at five ways to keep your new business on track. Put content on the web. Deal with your finances. Business Planning' Monitor your competitors.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. While there are 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access, 74% of Chinese Internet users make less than $500/month and are students, blue-collar workers or jobless.

China 219

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 219

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 316

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. We’d never hired anyone. Do you have the time to do them well?

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Startup SEO Montana Argentina 119

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. In August/September 2009, the founders and I agreed to work together to raise a round of financing for the company. Modista had built Shopping 2.0.

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Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model. 1) It’s an obligation that came with the check.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 297

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model. 1) It’s an obligation that came with the check.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 270

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50 percent and a net margin in the 20 percent range.

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Revenue Entrepreneur Valuation Viral 246

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range.

Revenue 145

Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

While traditional business models provide a more regular income, in the real estate world, it might be three months before you get paid—and it could even be longer. Step 1: Planning. According to real estate investor Eric Bowlin , the purpose of a business plan is twofold. Free Business Plan Template.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

After a week of hectic customer discovery , the team further refined their new business model. Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. Where is the best place for your business?

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South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 232

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. Page 4: Business Model.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Are the logistics manageable?

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. venture investments since 1987. Touch Press, the iPad, and the New Golden Age of Multimedia.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Your health startup business plan should be a tool to guide your growth. If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. Secure timely funding.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

Undertaking a formal and comprehensive study of a business’ industry, market, and competition usually leads to one of two results - either the target market is much smaller and less lucrative than surmised or… …it is defined so imprecisely and broadly as to uncover faulty strategic thinking / an unsound business model.

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Conversion Ratio Venture Capital Business Model Retention 48

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

Sara focuses upon another side of small business financing not typically considered in the angel and venture world, financing from sources for companies that will probably never be attractive to those niches. . Your business plan is ready. Your family is all for it.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Small Business Administration SBA 76

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Here’s a complete, 9 step guide on how to start a brewery business. Choose a business model. Fill in the business blanks. Build a web presence. Choose a business model. Choosing your business model is the first step in that direction. We recommend that you write a business plan.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. Business & Technology (18). Finance (1). But software engineers also pay a price for working by themselves. I have side projects, and I hold entrepreneurial ambitions.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Warby manages this killer combination of moderate prices and solid margins through supply chain efficiencies on the back end and on the front end picture perfect web branding and “white glove” customer service. How to emulate this great business? Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. So what gives?

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Undertaking a formal and comprehensive study of a business’ industry, market, and competition usually leads to one of two results - either the target market is much smaller and less lucrative than surmised or… …it is defined so imprecisely and broadly as to uncover faulty strategic thinking / an unsound business model.

Conversion Ratio 48

Conversion Ratio Business Model Retention Revenue 48

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Or they “toe dip” with high promise business model innovations, yet weigh them down with the fixed overhead of their expiring parts. No, the only appropriate response to expiring business realities is quick, uncompromised and even heartless action. Half measures like this are doomed to failure. Watch Now!

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

‘Starting a business’ really only comes down to figuring out your business idea ; doing your paperwork; and sorting out the money. Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 30, 2009

 If you intend to improve literacy around the world with a web application, do the markets most in need have broadband access? Understand finance.  Never, ever “let Mikey do it.”  Know, yourself, how your venture is financed, what the alternatives are, and when you will know it is time to execute them.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e.

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Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2011

What really matters are the business model canvas diagrams in the body and appendix of each presentation. By comparing the changes the teams made week-to-week-week in their business model canvas diagrams, you’ll see the dynamics of entrepreneurship, as they iterate and Pivot over time. Why Did We Teach This Class?

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

How should I finance my new venture?  After a half hour of web searching I found Khosla Ventures investing in essentially the same thing - to the tune of $10MM or so.  After a half hour of web searching I found Khosla Ventures investing in essentially the same thing - to the tune of $10MM or so. Leaving a Trail.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. They have 27 business units. Jason: I agree.

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