Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

1- Digital nomadism Photo Credit: Andre Oentoro The future of entrepreneurship may involve more decentralized teams and digital nomads– which can lead to new business models and opportunities. I believe we'll see generations of accidental entrepreneurs who run successful businesses simply by pursuing their interests.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur AJAX 115

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

This is the origin of the “solution looking for a problem” and “if we build it, they will come” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that don’t materialize. Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings.

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Intellectual Property Startup IP Finance 248

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

This is the origin of the “ solution looking for a problem ” and “ if we build it, they will come ” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that don’t materialize. Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings.

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Intellectual Property Startup IP Finance 231

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Next thing they know it’s too late: They have joined the 80+ percent of startups that find themselves auctioning off their IP for pennies at best, boarding up their doors and joining the ranks of Munchery, Path, Apprenda, Klout and many, many others. At this stage, the team is seeking market and customer validation metrics.

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Cleveland Framework Marketing Early Stage 127

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

In addition to funding, the good news is that all of these provide aspiring entrepreneurs with an opportunity to perfect their marketing pitch, get some valuable target customer feedback and improve visibility to other funding sources. Keep all IP details close to the vest. Naïve entrepreneurs believe crowdfunding is essentially free.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Technical Review Vesting 120

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. Creating this value is anchored in finding a repeatable, scalable business model. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation.

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Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

What if you decided to provide something tremendously fantastic for your customers, even though it meant great expense and hardship? Customers gleefully avoid the Blockbuster none-of-these-look-good-just-pick-one-already-zombie-walk — and NetFlix just put Blockbuster out of business — but is this a workable business model?

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Intellectual Property Open Source Bandwidth IP 242

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Business Model SEM IP Syndicate 150

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Again, your merchandizing team is working hard to procure these amazing bundles for your customers, so why are they not a core part of your nudge strategy? better to be upfront as the customers are looking for that information…. In-stock status. Life of current price.

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Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Allot Communications -a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. We provide our customers with a combination of sophisticated data analytics techniques. private networks, in nearly 100 countries.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Over 10 weeks each team gets out of the building talking to 100 customers to test their hypotheses across all 9 boxes in the business model canvas. We track each team’s progress as they test their business model hypotheses. It’s flexible enough to be modified for industry-specific business models.

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Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 310

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. A faculty member doesn’t have the time to think about market opportunities and the time frame required to move through the business model process.”.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

If you can prove a business model, traction, and potential for a tremendous scale with the right backing, you could be a ripe target to be acquired. . IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. Distribution & Customers.

Intellectual Property 101

Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 101

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. He continued: “I’d like to convince my boss so our company can be your first customer.”

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The Customer Service Survey. Gourmet Customer Service. Ideas dont have a lot of value by themselves, they tend not to be unique, and by staying secret a startup gives up the chance to get valuable feedback from prospective customers and partners. "The more I find out, the less I know.". Browse archives by date. Categories.

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Stealth IP NDA Startup 40

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. Sales finds aligned accounts and works with marketing to create customized journeys. Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention.

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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 Their objective is to get users, orders, customers, etc.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The time to product and scale of investment is radically different than other startup markets.&# Yeah, I said.

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Vertical Silicon Valley Intellectual Property RSS 149

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. That means in their core business, large companies have a series of knowns. and how to price the product.

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Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. How do we know how much the customer will buy and how long it will take?  How big is the customer problem being solved?  How big is the customer problem being solved?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences.

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Lean Customer Development IP Agile 241

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

From the customer’s point of view, they would rather wait a little longer and have a better platform-specific solution, than simultaneously ship a generic product on all platforms. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The first thing you need to do before attempting the globalization of your business is prepare all the content for localization. It is essential to translate your brand name, slogan, and all the content visible to international customers. Setup Multilingual Customer Support Through a Local Phone Number.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Customers are choices made by your startup. Customers pay you money so you can keep the lights on. Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Last week the teams tested their Revenue Models hypotheses: what are customers willing to pay for? Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. Any IP you need to license?

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South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 217

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Building direct customer relationships with viewers (who want to tune into your channels). Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). Having business models that aren’t only ad-based. Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins. ” Don’t.

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Networking Media Distribution Video 366

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. The physical office hasn’t been rendered obsolete by any means, but IP video conferencing has fundamentally changed how and with whom many people work on a daily basis. How We Plan to Invest in the Everyday Economy.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

The book dedicates quite a few pages to the ‘customer-centric stack’ and argues that because you’re now able to know when someone is in the market for a solution like yours [via IP lookup or 1st or 3rd party intent data], you don’t need to “spam” them. Is ABM right for your business?

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IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. What is the timeline to ROI and the amount of risk we are willing to assume? Will an Innovation Outpost provide results at the speed we need?

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Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

If you can’t explain your idea in 2 sentences, your customers probably won’t either. Get feedback from your customers. Ask customers how they would use your product – friends and family don’t count for this purpose. Get out there and talk to potential customers. Articulate your idea.

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Challenges of scaling Jeff and Jay share conversations about grow, growing and scaling subscription businesses with a customer first approach, check out all the episodes. Well, Uber has actually made new things possible in cities, new business models possible, uh, new businesses possible.

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Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 62

Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

However, there may be other factors that if not fully considered could be more damaging to your business than the gains you’ll receive from favorable taxation. It may help to plan what your business requirements are first before finding which countries best suit your needs, rather than selecting your choice of location first.

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Global Intellectual Property IP Cyprus 60

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. IP Location Tools. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

“Stopping Piracy” and “Protecting IP” sound like good ideas in theory. Since the DMCA, we’ve basically operated in an environment of “ask forgiveness rather than permission” when it comes to copyright and IP online. This is what movie studios and the rest of the SOPA supporters need to do.

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