Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) These hypotheses span the gamut from who’s the customer(s), to what’s the value proposition (product/service features), pricing, distribution channel, and demand creation (customer acquisition, activation, retention, etc.).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the companies they’re starting in 2023 and here are the responses. #1- 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.

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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. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

Artificial Inteligence 176

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

It will enable individuals to understand the travellers’ needs and expectations intimately which can result in new hospitality business models. They understand the need to constantly improve in order to develop resilient hospitality business models hand-in-hand with their employers.

Technical Review 165

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. In my experience as a new business advisor, a business is nothing until people are aligned and work in sync. Customer relationships.

Business Model 143

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) Diagnostics. Week 3 Todd Morrill Instructor . Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2020

Various online platforms are now offering drop shipping business models that are already developed. Obviously, you will need the necessary equipment to get this type of business started online, but startup costs are low. Then start marketing your skills on LinkedIn and other platforms where professional services are in demand.

Internet 130

Internet eCommerce Social Media Web Development 130

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

Every person, company, and product relies on transportation daily—creating a powerful demand. The global on-demand transportation market is expected to reach USD $304.97 The over 65 population is also set to double by 2030 , as a result of the aging boomers, creating a record-breaking demand for elderly care. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

Startup 286

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

You know, could you look at my business plan? See if the business model works, all these questions. So if you're running a small business, usually what you're doing, if it's a consulting business or any type of business, you are doing something similar to what other people have done in the past.

San Francisco 97

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Their week 6 business model now looked like this: . Their value proposition had now changed from a wind turbine supplier to homes, to a distributed power supplier to cities and utilities. The Nine Teams Present. All that we expected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously. In many business arenas, brand-name partners and distribution are a prerequisite to scaling the business.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. Reinventing Retail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

Hockey Stick 265

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

Finally to have a better chance of a viable enterprise, they need to test all the other hypotheses in their business/mission model (pricing, demand creation, revenue, costs, etc.). But other business/mission model components must be tested and validated, too. How can you test distribution/deployment?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Write your business plan and develop your business model with this in mind so you can avoid these issues. . You can choose from a few different types of business plans depending on your needs. If you’re seeking investment, you need a traditional business plan. Distribution. Be specific.

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Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

The same is applicable to the minimum wage and the average market pay rate if you are planning on opening an office and hiring distributed workforce overseas. A diversified market presence and global expansion offer a business, a way of mitigating long-term risks involved in a fluctuating local market. Easier response to demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2022

Pivoting” is changing a fundamental part of your business model. The pivot can be as simple as changing the pricing model, or as complex as moving from a product business to a services business. Real change demands new goals based on new market realities. Reinvent the vision for change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

If you can’t make money, it isn’t a business. Business constraints, such as market size, customer demographics, manufacturing, distribution, and support costs need to be set, or there is no context for getting it right. With the economy on the rebound, we need more entrepreneurs to satisfy new demands and solve new problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

If you can’t make money, it isn’t a business. Business constraints, such as market size, customer demographics, manufacturing, distribution, and support costs need to be set, or there is no context for getting it right. With the economy on the rebound, we need more entrepreneurs to satisfy new demands and solve new problems.

Engineer 261

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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. Within each brand there were several models at different price points.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. In my experience as a new business advisor, a business is nothing until people are aligned and work in sync. Customer relationships.

Intellectual Property 250

Intellectual Property Business Model Angel Investor Channel 250

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Best practices for developing a brand identity Here are some best practices to consider when developing a brand identity for your SaaS platform: Define your brand values: Define your SaaS business model, brand values, mission, and vision. You’re getting more users, more traffic, and more demand. So, what is scalability?

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Design Product Churn Rate Architecture 105

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

In a progressively saturated market, these startups need to reevaluate their strategies and wisely distribute resources to remain competitive and sustainable amidst the demands of investors and well-established competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

Hockey Stick 307

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. In the early days of every business the incumbents tend not to respond because you’re too small and insignificant. Choose that market. Microeconomics.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The approach allows users to generate limitless amounts of training data on-demand; customizing the camera type, lighting conditions, occlusions, and materials in a training set purpose generated for each application. Launching our public dashboard tool for on-demand training data generation. What is your top goal for LexSet for 2020?

Technical Review 63

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The country exited the Civil War as a nation of small businesses and ended the century with large national corporations (railroads, steel, oil, food, insurance, etc.). These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Its purpose was to educate management on best practices to run existing companies.

Lean 433

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big. For example, many of the Australian sports tech business models shared common elements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change. Capitalize on what already exists.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. Millennials now outnumber any other generation in the workforce, and they are demanding transparency around pay. What is your top goal for Syndio for 2020? To help companies resolve pay equity and the pay gap. Pay equity addresses equal pay for equal work.

Technical Review 62

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Lots of people talk about business models these days, but what does it really mean? When it comes to starting or planning for business success your model is essentially your decision about how you intend to add value – which is another way of saying – how you intend to make money. Clarity.fm

Business Model 77

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View from Seed

JANUARY 6, 2021

First, my partner Melody tends to very quickly drill-down on the value proposition of a product or service to the end user as well as the incentives of other relevant parties (eg: suppliers, distribution partners, collaborators, etc). He doesn’t have much patience for hand-waving, and loves businesses with a superior economic model.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. Climate Issues Will Re-Globalise: We will only become a truly global community when climate catastrophe demands it. Gigs with Benefits: The gig economy will evolve from its current exploitative business model.

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