Business Model Cofounder IP 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Carlos stirred his coffee.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Or if they have a disruptive technology or business model, they want to create a new capability or operating concept – even creating a new market. Founders and Innovators should expect that existing organizations and companies will defend their turf – ferociously. Co-opt them. Use patents as a weapon.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2019
In two of these three phases – the first and third – volumes of helpful information and numerous organizations are readily available to help guide and support founders of startups. These are the consultants and books that offer founders the tools and insights needed to “cross the chasm” ( as Geoffrey Moore put it ) and begin to scale.
Tim Keane
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. Mike Markulla came with the first investments - as a cofounder -- because investors felt the company needed leadership that could attract talent to be able to grow and he brought in Scott.
www.frozennorth.org
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
During the two days of the show, one of their programmers sat in on my speech about building better customer service automation; I had an hour-long chat with the CEO and another of the founders; and their PR manager stopped by our booth for a 15-minute briefing about what we do. They are actively hiring Perl programmers. . *
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. Disbelief, Anger, Resignation and Acceptance My cofounders and I went through the stages of disbelief, anger, resignation and acceptance. He was now CEO of a new company in our market.
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