Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2018

They use the Business Model (or Mission Model ) Canvas to keep track of their key hypotheses and then rapidly test them by talking to customers and iterating their Minimal Viable Products. Diagram Your Business Model. The best way to start is by drawing a business model canvas.

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Marketing Startup Government SEC 324

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. At 11 a.m., I am very glad to see Girish and his team going after one such opportunity.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

When starting a business today, going online is certainly one of the best ways to keep your company expenditure to a minimum. When it comes to buying new materials and equipment for their new business, many entrepreneurs can make the mistake of really going to town. Make Savvy Purchases.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

But before your business really gets off the ground, you need to make sure you have your accounting administration set up properly. Accounting may seem like the most mundane aspect of running a business, but it’s also the most essential to keep on track —especially during the early stages. Keep refining your methods.

Small Business 60

Small Business CPA Finance Warrant 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) Cloud- based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are quickly becoming another distribution platform. other DHealth channels such as Wellness Platforms, and cloud-based EMR’s are also emerging.

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Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 230

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. What should our MRR growth be?

B2C 141

B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Avoid elephants in your early stages. I personally felt that we would have been better served putting more resource into building out cloud services, for example, to make Salesforce more scalable in terms of our user base. That’s why I believe most early stage companies should be deer hunters. Who else?).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

We often tell founders that a business plan is nonsense. A business model, on the other hand, is a snapshot of your business assumptions at this moment in time. It''s that the business model is complex. Once you''ve stated those assumptions clearly, you run experiments to see if they''re valid.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2015

It is in need of innovation on many fronts and is also trying to embrace the amazing amount of innovation happening with early-stage companies. Yet, I have noticed that many healthcare startups make “leap of faith assumptions” as they try to build their businesses. a security review (especially if they are in “the cloud”).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&#

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model. Business Models.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Needless to say, this isn’t a business model that works in the pandemic world. Sometimes your technology platform changes, and you need to pivot from on-premise to the cloud. Frequently, however, you need to pivot your business model and find new ways to make money. Not all pivots are created equal.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

We’ve always invested across different stages - in fact, one of our very first investments as a firm in 2009 was in the Skype spin-out from eBay - but until very recently, we’ve always done so out of a single fund structure and with the same teams that are focused on our early-stage investment activities. No need to name names.

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The mobile world brings enormous business opportunities and changes to business models that were unthinkable when VCs made investments ten years ago that produced the last decade of results. And the future?

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

And it was a big change in business models. Existing software engineers and tech entrepreneurs needed to retool both their skills as well as their way thinking about how software should be set up and software business models. Even the business models were still the same. (i.e. everything done online).

Business Model 48

Business Model Software Silicon Valley Mobile 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. You have to know your business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. Amazon in turn led to the formation of an earlier stage of venture capital now led by what I call “micro VCs&# who typically invest $250-500k in companies rather than the $5-7 million that VCs used to invest. There are also others.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The business model. 4 Reasons to Brand Your Business.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. No business model, either. All my products and ideas focus on early cash and a business model that works from the first day. Heck, Id already seen Friendster flame out.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Business Management.

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Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

always focus on the business model and assumptions, but there are too many unknowns to put much faith in the future cash flow projections. The point is their opinions werent clouded by any vested interest or lengthy analysis. Ive never heard of a VC running Monte Carlo simulations on possible outcomes.

San Jose 33

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Mezzanine 33

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end. Early-stage investing is still the only thing we do.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It was too loud to talk so I just watched the steel pour through the clouds of soot backlit by the blinding bright liquid metal. And as I stared through the billowing clouds of soot flashing between black and white took on fantastical shapes as tiny figures on the factory floor scurried around the bucket.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. As a seed fund, we tend to layer in “ capital efficient beginnings ” to the mix given our investing model and belief about the best way to build internet and software businesses.

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Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 28, 2023

To recap the year, here are some of 2023’s biggest themes for Version One: 1) Building in AI While still early in the AI wave, we’re seeing not only technological innovation but also business model transformation. It’s still in the very early stages there, but there is definitely an enthusiastic community to build on.

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Technical Review India Canada Early Stage 72

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Our name was so disconnected from our business model that we were in the midst of a protracted and expensive name change initiative (along with a small army of consultants), at the time we sold Expertcity to Citrix. Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. |. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

link] We are developing a software technology that works on the web using cloud computing to build software 100X faster and reduce bugs and cut costs. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

Social Network 28

Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Furthermore, your vision also needs to be relatable to another business model that investors have seen be successful. With the explosion of web and mobile apps, many seed and early stage investors today take a “wait-and-see” approach before deploying capital. As a result, building a product isn’t the hard part.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. cloud-based survey, free account. Cloud-based drawing tool.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” Tech best sub sectors include cloud computing, machine learning/A.I. As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.”

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Venture Capital Global South Africa 174