Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

– while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2023

The pandemic-induced disruptions have spurred innovation and accelerated digital transformation, leading to the emergence of new business models and opportunities. In this article, entrepreneurs from various industries share their economic outlook, offering valuable insights into the current business landscape. #1-

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. And Udacity has put their awesome production resources behind the class and hosts the Lean LaunchPad online lectures.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

“superior product vision” – This involves having a clear and compelling vision for a product or service that solves a real problem for customers. They should be able to identify a gap in the market that their product can fill, and be able to communicate this to investors and employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In the last few years I have seen a popular business model emerging which embodies a greater focus on social and environmental responsibility, and a new requirement for trust and sharing, as well as customer and community collaboration. The days of mass production and commodity pricing as an asset are gone.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

It’s becoming increasingly important for every business to have at least basic technology to run daily operations in the current day society. Society is changing and so is its demand and supply for new products and services. With new technology emerging, we can only imagine the changes it will bring along to the business platform.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 28, 2024

Through AI-powered algorithms, we can analyze vast amounts of data to understand our customers better, anticipate their needs, & tailor our products& services accordingly. It's a step forward in our commitment to enhancing the health and well-being of our communities while also supporting sustainable practices.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Academic lab research concentrates heavily on advancing experimental science designs that emphasize the understanding of scientific mechanisms and publishing papers that explore phenomena, rather than developing commercialized data or products. The new model emphasized business structure and capitalization.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 14, 2011

Being a successful entrepreneur in the emerging new music industry will require a willingness to forget the old business models. These fans want to be part of a community, have the sense of a personal relationship with artists, attend live events and have access to merchandise that shows their affinity with the band.

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Argona

JANUARY 15, 2024

Business enterprises, including startups, aim for continuous growth and development as part of their business strategy, but challenges like limited budgets, fierce competition, skill gaps, and inconsistent marketing approaches can hinder their progress.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

of revenue, force-feeding sales pipelines with an unprofitable product. Eloqua was also a SaaS company, also selling to enterprise, selling the same product in exactly the same space, also tightly integrated with Salesforce.com, and IPO’ed with a $5m loss on $71m in revenue — a 7% loss instead of Marketo’s massive 60% loss.

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2020

You’ve built credibility with them meaning they’re more likely to purchase from you again or even pay more for additional services and new products. Add a new product line that compliments previous purchases. It can be as simple as opening a business profile and beginning to grow a community of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2021

In the last few years I have seen a popular business model emerging which embodies a greater focus on social and environmental responsibility, and a new requirement for trust and sharing, as well as customer and community collaboration. The days of mass production and commodity pricing as an asset are gone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. Learning how to craft and nurture great customer experiences around your product is critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

32 students were scattered across the globe and given a seemingly impossible assignment- they had 10 weeks to understand and then solve a real Dept of Defense problem – by interviewing 100 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, et al while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products – all while never leaving their room.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

4- Drop-shipping enterprise Photo Credit: Matthew Magnante It's my proposal The drop-shipping business model involves selling things that are transported straight from the supplier to the client. Your business model involves cooking and delivering delicious meals to people at their places of employment or at their homes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Even without B-Corp status, entrepreneurs are speaking out more on the positives to support business models that benefit not just shareholders, but customers, workforce, the environment, and the greater community. Of course, investors still require a profitable business model, and the potential for high returns.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I worked with engineering to try to find product/market fit ( big endian or little endian ?) I felt a loss of community – we had been a small tight team who had bonded together under extreme pressure and accomplished amazing things. Loss of Community? Help them understand the community is growing and they’re the ambassadors.

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SVPG

AUGUST 3, 2015

I have been an unapologetic Apple fanboy for as long as I’ve been in this industry, and published articles at the debut of the iPhone , and the debut of the iPad , congratulating Apple on what I believed would go on to become extremely successful products. I am also on record as considering Steve Jobs the worlds greatest product leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Since the financial downturn of 2008, I have seen a new business model emerging which embodies a greater focus on social and environmental responsibility, and a new requirement for trust and sharing, as well as customer and community collaboration. The days of mass production and commodity pricing as an asset are gone.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2023

Starting a business requires a strong motivation to solve a problem or fill a gap in the market. Entrepreneurs often have a vision and a passion for their ideas, products, or services. Ultimately, the reasons for starting a business are personal and unique to each individual. #5- Thanks to Sanjay Gupta, Gurin Products ! #12-

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

The shift toward business models that embrace social responsibility raises questions about how financially sustainable it is to dedicate resources and employee energy to doing good in the world. Some may argue that such efforts are best left to individuals, not businesses. A shared passion for social good boosts profitability.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Get Out of the Building and test the Business Model.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2018

They are active in their community, and they often use the best marketing techniques in making sure that they remain relevant in the industry. The rise of new technology has helped real estate agents rely on better and more innovative solutions like SetSchedule to solve their productivity problems. User-friendly.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The MAD 2024 landscape A final example, is this list of the 50 most popular consumer AI web products , recently published by A16Z. Counter position – Kill the value-proposition of the competition with a new, superior business model, which the incumbent does not mimic due to anticipated damage to their existing business.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Moreover, I like inspiring myself with interesting online business models and Wikipedia is a great example of a user-generated content-based website. It led the way to a new kind of business model and changed the game. And he is not afraid to take bold bets on new technologies and business models.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I want to listen to them deeply about our products. I've been working in this industry for a few years now, and there are two kinds of businesses: those that focus on their products and services, and those that focus on their customers. 16- Focusing on the needs of the community. Making a proud community.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

The point he’s making is that many marketers teach a business model that relies on using outsourcers, who often don’t have English as a first language, to create ebooks and other information products, which are then sold online using clever marketing. There’s nothing inherently wrong about this model.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

It’s argued that social entrepreneurship is the new business model due to its ability to help one connect with the world and live a purposeful life while serving others. It also improves the image of business through collaborations and fosters relationships for a better society. 1- Being greener. 5- Contributing to charities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Think of the iPhone and its yearly new models.). What Does GM Have to Do with Tesla And Elon Musk?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” The term first appeared at least ten years ago, but the model is now very common. Building content is costly and time-consuming. This is not just a fad.

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