Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

As our group sweltered in the July heat on the outskirts of Cairo , each of these purported minions of the state — none of whom wore a uniform or badge — in turn blocked our entry, determined to exercise the modest amount of authority bestowed on him by demanding that my host surrender his digital SLR camera.

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Technical Review Egypt Morocco Russia 172

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. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Ten years is not a very long time, but in a world of exponential technology, a lot can happen. Sure, some of the ideas below might seem like science fiction or fantasy, but so was much of the technology we take for granted today. Fear of technology, job losses and immigrants will continue its current pattern.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

His book — Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You know, could you look at my business plan? See if the business model works, all these questions. And it doesn't have to be technology.

San Francisco 95

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. 2- More due to uncertainty. Due to the pandemic a lot of people lost their jobs and because of that, people have been forced to look outside of the box — to go beyond of their comfort zone.

Entrepreneur 137

Entrepreneur Technical Review Security Demand 137

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Typical business stage. Typical business model.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Entrepreneurs who’ve overcome the proof-of-concept phase of their startups want to take their businesses to the next level. Within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, “scaleup” challenges differ from startup challenges and demand unique solutions. All product industries are different and meet the needs of differing markets.

Miami 61

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2024

Key Takeaways Chris Martinez’s journey underscores the importance of strategic pivots, understanding customer needs, leveraging technology, building a strong team, and continuous learning. By pivoting to a specialized niche, he aligned his services with client demands, enhancing efficiency and scalability through technology.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Some, such as Chinese mobile company Xiaomi, were founded less than five years ago while others such as Good Technology have been around for more than a decade. The how and why are purely a function of Economics 101—supply and demand. One key difference between the late ‘90s tech scene and now are macroeconomic factors.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

Reassess all the differentials based on demand, always prioritizing products and services with greater profitability and better cash generation. The businesses should find the most profitable revenue channels using unit economics, then guard both the revenue sources and the profits they produce. 13- Monitor macroeconomic changes.

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Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review Revenue 97

Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. For technology entrepreneurs, we need to encourage them to understand the lean startup methodology, as a means to help them validate their assumptions.

Entrepreneur 82

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 30, 2020

There’s no denying that Covid-19 has hit small businesses the hardest and that many small business owners are struggling to deal with the negative financial impacts that the pandemic has wreaked on our communities and economies. See how you can learn from others and understand how they are positioning themselves in the market.

Small Business 52

Small Business eCommerce Technical Review Green 52

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model.

Artificial Inteligence 315

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Be customer focused, not technology focused. Choose a business model that will win in the market.

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Technical Review Government Agile Differentiation 201

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) In the U.S.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affect the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Thanks to Adit Jain, Leena AI ! #6-

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Global 110

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Is Government a good idea? A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model.

Engineer 219

Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

These valid observations may be drawn from primary research sources such as the work published by the National Academies, whose most recent report, Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment , was released several months ago. In the 1990s the U.S.

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IPO Venture Capital America Marketing 38

View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Influencers today are leveraging social commerce to sell various print-on-demand products like apparel, mugs, and small accessories. For example, Marques Brownlee is one of the most prolific technology reviewers. He gets first access to review the latest iPhones, etc. However, there is so much more influencers could sell.

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DC Cambodia eCommerce Social Media 156

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

We reviewed the story of The Diary of Anne Frank and what she went through. That's just something every small business with under 500 employees needs to take advantage of. ER : A lot of folks I've been talking to about this, they're not accustomed to asking the government to help and it feels a little weird. Like, "Oh, come on.

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Dallas Employee Government Social Media 68

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

See the Lofty AI pitch in the category of Innovative World Technology , 5 pm to 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. They won’t demand a five-year pro-forma revenue projection for a 10k pre-seed check. With the exception of Lofty AI, what tech trend is your team most excited about?

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These laws apply to every entrepreneurial endeavor, not just high tech startups, though we’ll still spend plenty of time on the technology industry. The market demand is broadly recognized, but the incumbent players are fulfilling that demand in a lazy way. This may be due to industry-specific technological change.

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Technical Review Software Review Engineer America 36

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Offshore Merger Technical Review 263

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model.

Offshore 139

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2020

It’s basically 100% of their income and revenue and their whole business model. You know, if you’re hired to more like an in depth training, technical type of talk, then humor can break it up a little bit, but you’re probably need to be a little bit err more on the education side. I just want to speak.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model.

Offshore 120

Offshore Startup Merger Technical Review 120

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Here’s a complete, 9 step guide on how to start a brewery business. Choose a business model. Fill in the business blanks. Choose a business model. Before you can start to seriously plan your own craft beer business, you need to understand the end goal that you’re aiming for.

Small Business Administration 94

Small Business Administration Distribution LLC Small Business 94

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. Eric Ries : Tell us a little bit about your background.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2013

A tactical failure occurs when you do grow quickly or easily attract passionate users, but see major drop-offs at key points in product usage due to poor implementation and user experience. This is a violation of the "give before you take" principle that governs social interactions.

Mobile 167

Mobile Developer Technical Review Lean 167

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. It’s time to dig into the process of actually writing a business plan. In this step-by-step guide, I’ll take you through every stage of writing a business plan that will actually help you achieve your goals. An S-corp ?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

You got to understand that and be okay with that and not go through some melodramatic midlife crisis because you’re working in a struggling startup business. You also need to look at whether or not you need to update your technology skills prior to you leaving your corporate job. Who is buying from this business and why?

Social Media 60

Social Media Small Business Software Review Technical Review 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for business talent – go to the business meetups. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. No, I have many ideas.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

‘Starting a business’ really only comes down to figuring out your business idea ; doing your paperwork; and sorting out the money. Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

While there may be generational gaps about fashion or social conventions, millenials are often at the forefront when it comes to technology. Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks.

Las Vegas 113

Las Vegas Technical Review Security New York 113

The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

In 2024, that means businesses that prioritize not just profit, but also environmental and social responsibility. Kilimo: AI-powered water efficiency in agriculture It is estimated that between 50% and 70% of the water extracted in Latin America and the Caribbean is wasted due to evaporation, leaks and other reasons.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Cloud 130