YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. Our business model back then was very complex, and it included a B2C as well as a B2B business model, that wasn’t being implemented yet. It was all hypothetical.

Programming 124

Programming Chile B2B B2C 124

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. The reality is that most business plans don’t survive first contact with customers. experiential.

Lean 433

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 433

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units. a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance.

Incubator 310

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 310

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Just like in college, graduates of incubators are sent off to go conquer the world… with the dream of a multi-million dollar exit and dollar signs in their eyes. In life out of the incubator or accelerator bubble, why do most of these bright start-ups fail? The missing link is finding the right channel and investment partner.

Incubator 121

Incubator Turkey Estonia United States 121

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. I-Corps teams spent the class refining their business model and minimum viable product. Methodology. Lessons Learned.

Lean 248

Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 248

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Thus it is always a question of what you qualify for, and what you are willing to give up, to turn your dream idea into a viable business. Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit.

Entrepreneur 240

Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. The Free Rider Problem. Also, Michaeline Daboul, from New Hampshire, pitched MMIS Inc. ,

Business Model 122

Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

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. Yet this isn’t an incubator. And do it in 8 weeks.

Lean 256

Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model - first by finding product/market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition/activation, partners, costs, etc.). This is the group who will build the company.

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Advisory Board Customer Development Leadership 335

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Thus it is always a question of what you qualify for, and what you are willing to give up, to turn your dream idea into a viable business. Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: 10. Join a startup incubator or accelerator.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Small Business Administration 283

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. The question was: Could we get these companies to pivot and learn when they already thought they had an existing business model?). If you can’t see the slides click here.

North America 120

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Innovation doesn’t always make you a winner in business. In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. Billion-dollar businesses are seldom about a single transaction with any customer.

Silicon Valley 136

Silicon Valley Differentiation Angel Investor Incubator 136

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The next week they came back in class and presented this : Each week we’d teach them about one more part of what makes up a business model. At week six they were trying to figure out their distribution channel ( here ) after another pivot. By week eight they were learning who they needed to partner with (see here ).

Lean 272

Lean Silicon Valley Customer Development Incubator 272

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately. Does it become a new division?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Thus it is always a question of what you qualify for, and what you are willing to give up, to turn your dream idea into a viable business. Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

While finding product-market fit is important, getting the rest of the business model right is the difference between and a great demo and a great business. He is also a co-founder of XediaLabs , a DC-based incubator that provides training and technical consulting to local startups. What was the value proposition?

Cofounder 120

Cofounder DC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 120

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Fred Hutch Spinoff Blaze Bioscience Pulls in $5M For ‘Tumor Paint’. View More in Seattle ›. View More in Cleantech ›.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Fairchild Semiconductor became the progenitor of a flood of Silicon Valley chip companies and at the same time the adoption of the limited partnership as the model for Venture Firms gave VC’s their own profitable business model. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995.

Lean 258

Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. You can register for the next roundtable here.

Dilution 114

Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

The business is very different in London, and my feedback was that investors want a repeatable business model. For that to happen, he needs to show investors how his India model scales, without introducing a random London factor in the business. Ashish wants to raise money and scale rapidly.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Resilience – the ability to bounce back from adversity – is one of the key attributes of entrepreneurs and was the focus of my first weekly radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111. On the alumni side, we set up an incubator downtown, called the Columbia Startup Lab. … ” ….

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur New York Cofounder Equity 120

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? There is no cookie-cutter formula.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

It is not a small business loan program. . It is not an accelerator, incubator or any other type of ator. . VC funding can great for some companies, but it comes with a certain set of expectations that have an impact on everything from business model to company culture. What it is. What it isn’t. And have their place.

San Francisco 40

San Francisco Cap Table Non-Compete Distribution 40

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. What is your advice for dealing with criticism when starting/launching a new business or coming up with an idea? Should the idea or business be kept secret? Initial developer: partner or hired?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

"The community is more vibrant than any time since I started here," says Lahman, a New York native who says he knew things had changed when a cousin at Stanford University e-mailed him "looking for an introduction to an incubator here. There are at least five high-profile incubators in the area, including Launchpad, Amplify and MuckerLab.

Los Angeles 87

Los Angeles San Francisco Southern California Silicon Valley 87

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. In other words they are entrepreneurs that help others like them succeed in their new business. business planning. accel partners.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. We want every entrepreneur to have access to our curriculum and incubation services, and give them an opportunity to build their businesses, irrespective of the scale of their entrepreneurial aspirations.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

07:00 PM: TechSet Party Speakeasy – This Friday SXSW kickoff party unites the digerati as they channel their inner Fame Monster by reviving a decade of style and glamour that made the social elite go ga ga. Presented by John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and The Deck Network. Hilton A/B ([link].

Omaha 79

Omaha Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Media 79

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman joined me on my show in November.

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Incubator IPO Networking Cofounder 36