Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

When globalization or technology shrinks distances (Internet), painful missing needs become evident, and opportunities abound. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. Truly “disruptive” technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

According to my experience and a this Motley Fool article, the challenge is very real, with around half of all new businesses no longer existing after five years. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ross helped me understand social media, blogging, and the emerging business models the internet was facilitating. He truly led me to becoming an author and technology commentator. A tiny cohort of startup founders who shared ideas on tech before it was trendy. Heck, we’ll even use AI to do the final video edits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2023

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Create a formidable and durable business model. Your business model is your value proposition. Free” sounds like a great model, but it doesn’t imply value. Government matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Technology pilots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Create a formidable and durable business model. Your business model is your value proposition. Free” sounds like a great model, but it doesn’t imply value. Government matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When globalization or technology shrinks distances (Internet), painful missing needs become evident, and opportunities abound. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. Truly “disruptive” technologies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. The large companies strategy seems to be to cover every possible market niche by copying successful models from others.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2023

With the availability of high-speed Internet and social media access around the world, it’s easy for entrepreneurs to assume that the world is just one big homogeneous market, and project their business will scale accordingly. Re-validate your business model in every market. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Technology pilots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. The large companies strategy seems to be to cover every possible market niche by copying successful models from others.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to a recent Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. Moreover, I like inspiring myself with interesting online business models and Wikipedia is a great example of a user-generated content-based website. It led the way to a new kind of business model and changed the game.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

Talking about the Brazilian market, they can even get a fine from the government because of some missing transactions on that day. Now a quick link with internet-related startups: companies who grow unbelievable percentages every year in the entire world. Most of their business models wouldn’t be possible without it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2012

I always hate it when I see startups invest millions of dollars in technology before they validate their ideas in the market, only to find that customers seem to be looking for something slightly different. Leverage the technology to change directions as needed. Test your idea early in a form that is easy and inexpensive to modify.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2020

With the availability of high-speed Internet and social media access around the world, it’s easy for entrepreneurs to assume that the world is just one big homogeneous market, and project their business will scale accordingly. Re-validate your business model in every market. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I always hate it when I see startups invest millions of dollars in technology before they validate their ideas in the market, only to find that customers seem to be looking for something slightly different. Leverage the technology to change directions as needed. Test your idea early in a form that is easy and inexpensive to modify.

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Entrepreneur Database Early Stage Distribution 236

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Apply for contests and business grants.

Entrepreneur 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Create a formidable and durable business model. Your business model is your value proposition. Free” sounds like a great model, but it doesn’t imply value. Government matters.

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United States Business Model Government Differentiation 239

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Sometimes you think, oh, the U.S.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Sometimes you think, oh, the U.S.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. In some Venture Capital firms they may share the same roof and overhead, but no one is confused, they’re in very different businesses.). Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 29, 2023

How To Take Back Control Of Technology written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Gaia Bernstein In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Gaia Bernstein. She writes, teaches, and lectures at the intersection of law, technology, health, and privacy. And we get Gmail for free.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Here’s how.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. since they are the ones who’ve mastered the new technologies that can help us get beyond traditional publishing. He originally published this post on on Medium.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Here’s how.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Create a formidable and durable business model. Your business model is your value proposition. Free” sounds like a great model, but it doesn’t imply value. Government matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Create a formidable and durable business model. Your business model is your value proposition. Free” sounds like a great model, but it doesn’t imply value. Government matters.

United States 120

United States Business Model Government Differentiation 120

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.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

It does not reason like we reason, but there are interesting parallels between how it works and we work, since it is trained on a huge amount of human data from the internet. I think that this will show both the magic and the current limitations of the technology. This magic is just starting.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses. There are 5.7

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