Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Ballmer and Microsoft failed because the CEO was a world-class executor (a Harvard grad and world-class salesman) of an existing business model trying to manage in a world of increasing change and disruption. What’s Missing? They remain entrepreneurs. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Experienced entrepreneurs understand investor expectations of Board representation, preferred stock, and payments based on interim milestones. Undefined business model or very low gross margins. Ask only for the money you can justify. Naïve expectations on funding terms and process.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 18, 2015

They have everything: money, brand, momentum, existing customers, press, product teams, distribution channels, expertise, market insight, analysts, sales offices, product features, and, by definition, a working business model. Watch how fast your stock plummets when Wall Street thinks your future earnings are in jeopardy.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business. Typical business stage. Typical business model.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Agree upon how much of this business each of your leaders owns, and write that down on slips of paper called “stock certificates”. Once that’s done, you’re free to get to work running and growing your new business! Finally, they will outline the next two steps we’ll discuss below: board meetings and distribution of shares. .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Thanks to Abdul Saboor, The Stock Dork ! #4- 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. Thanks to Carter Seuthe, Credit Summit ! #4- Thanks to Oliver Goodwin, Synthesys.io ! #7-

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Experienced entrepreneurs understand investor expectations of Board representation, preferred stock, and payments based on interim milestones. Undefined business model or very low gross margins. Ask only for the money you can justify. Naïve expectations on funding terms and process.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s Very Likely That Artificial Intelligence Will Be Worth More In Aggregate Than is Currently Being Invested (Just Unevenly Distributed) In kindergarten my daughter learned to not ‘yuck’ someone’s ‘yum.’ Or question business models. There’s a lot of yumming AI right now and it’s of course perfectly fine (often helpful!)

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has caused many businesses of all sizes to re-evaluate their plans and pivot their business models. If your company has been suffering from losses or is exposed to risks because of this pandemic, you may want to consider changing your business entity. Sell Shares/Take On Business Partners.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Develop a Business Model. The great managerial guru, Peter Drucker, liked to say that the purpose of a business is to keep and create a customer. Achieving that in profitable ways is the purpose of your business model. New businesses often do not have the capital to attract top talent.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In the short term, these new creative AI technologies are starting with the low hanging fruit of the ‘creative class’ Whether it’s copywriting, design, stock photography, video editing, voice acting and others, AI can start offering a cheaper alternative to labor and service marketplaces.

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Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2020

Business owners large and small are struggling to find their footing, wondering what will be the new normal when the recovery happens. For the majority of companies, the business models of the past will not return. Hit hardest were most small business service providers. Delivery/Distribution Channel innovation.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2010

I’ll offer that both entrepreneurs and VC’s have the wrong model for founding CEO equity compensation. The customary vesting model has founders vest their stock over 4-years , and when the founding CEO gets in over their head the VC’s bring in professional management. It’s About Finding the Business Model.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker. Connect the creator economy with Web3.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! People often ask us for a list of steps they can use to start their own business. From business type to business model to physical location, there are so many variables!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. Yes, distributions to LPs have been pushed out a few years but the value capture in privates by the best VC firms (and best LPs) has been enormous. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. trillion in value.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. The first company started as a BBQ catering business, and eventually focused in on their most popular product, a dip made of blended up chicken plus various sauces. BACK 9 DIPS.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

This implies high odds of a scalable business, simply needing an investment to lead to success. Business model showing costs, pricing, and margins. Equally important is a projected use of these funds in scaling the business, including time frames for future investment requirements.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

One of our first customers was a stock trading company in NY that wanted to host live stock chats. In my mind, there are two main facets to Revenue Development: a) Business model iteration, and, b) Pricing iteration. Very often what a startup’s business model is going to be is unclear.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

These new entrants disrupted their food categories by offering high quality proprietary recipes, outsourcing their manufacturing, and using their cash and resources on sales and marketing to build distribution and a differentiated brand. It was Krave’s first national stocking order. If you can’t see the slides click here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

How the solution and business model work to fund the business. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections.

Product 120

Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Experienced entrepreneurs understand investor expectations of Board representation, preferred stock, and payments based on interim milestones. Undefined business model or very low gross margins. Ask only for the money you can justify. Naïve expectations on funding terms and process.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. To blitzscale successfully, you need a successful business model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. SecondMarket , SharesPost , etc.). Tools in the New Bubble.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. Deluxe for Business. The 2011 Top Lists. Honorees Resources.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

August 2010 Two years ago I wrote about what I called " a huge, unexploitedopportunity in startup funding :" the growing disconnect betweenVCs, whose current business model requires them to invest largeamounts, and a large class of startups that need less than theyused to. Get funded by Y Combinator.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2013

This business model is much more high margin (profitable) than Amazon actually stocking and selling things themselves. Also, while we are talking Amazon, lets think Kindle/ebook model — digital products served on demand with few physical activities and interactions before, during or after the sale.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The emergence of mobile platforms has broadened the array of internet-enabled businesses somewhat, and overall it obviously marks a massive shift in computing platforms. But at its base level, ubiquitous computing or “mobile” hasn’t actually changed that much from the desktop web when it comes to fundamental business models.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

But of course the company is incredibly deserving of heavy admiration and emulation for how, in just a few short years, they've re-engineered and become the default offering for a massive business category. Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e For profitable reselling, Grainger.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What models of eCommerce fulfillment are available? eCommerce fulfillment is available in 3 different business models—self-fulfillment, 3PL fulfillment, and dropshipping. Frequently used by the top names in eCommerce communities, 3PL or the ‘Third-Party Logistics’ model is just as the name suggests. Self-fulfillment.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

The answer is, they couldn't make any money trading, [or on] giving analyst support for small stocks because the spread got too small.". stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. When small fluctuations in stock value changed from 12.5¢

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. Mature startups with proven business models and the potential to reach the public markets within a few years will be the safest place to park any new venture capital that comes into the ecosystem.

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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.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In addition, UNI arrived and was probably one of the largest token distribution events ever with 15% of all tokens going to nearly 300K liquidity providers and users. Just imagine a company going public hands out 15% of their stock to their users at IPO – for free! .

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The second time, on the show The Doctors, she agreed to give away her entire stock of inventory to the audience for free, and was unable to make meaningful sales. She agreed to invest at the terms that were asked for, $65,000 for 25% of the company, and to help with production and distribution. wholesale, a very slim margin.

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