Business Model Employee Seed Money Technology 
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. Part 1 outlining the program is here. The origin.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. Part 1 outlining the program is here. The origin.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion. Many very successful, non-technology companies have also been products of venture capital, including Home Depot, Starbucks, and Staples.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. This doesnt work well.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas. Your technology is really cool and working great but no one knows you exist. Melvin Great post!
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