Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

According to my experience and a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. Sea Turtles and VPN – the connections to the rest of the world. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. Innovation Ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Creating a scalable business model. Whether you are hoping to expand a small business with a loan or going for a round of venture capital, you will need a scalable business model.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. Sea Turtles and VPN – the connections to the rest of the world. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. Innovation Ecosystem.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). More tiers = more complication = more confusion.

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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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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. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Multiples dropped in public and private markets, growth expectations were cut, and business models with high spend for promise of future ROI became quite unfavorable. The two questions that will have the greatest impact on startups and venture over the next few years, and potentially the rest of this decade.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They’ve become outward-facing universities.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Surrender to Serendipity My general rule of thumb is to make a big calendar with everything I could possibly want to do on it and then in the moment do whichever of the things is easiest and aligns with the rest of the group I’m worth. A Venture Capital Outlook on Industry 4.0 Don’t forget the ABC’s of SXSW?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 16, 2013

We, as a society, put in place structures like government and big corporations largely as an organizational efficiency. Just because the government labels you as the worst thing you ever did doesn''t mean the rest of the world does--and your local network should care more about what you do than what you did. It''s a war.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. Rest assured there are differences, and they can be significant. You’re a startup, just get your product out the door.” Order Here.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

See Also: What Do Venture Capital Firms Want? At the same time, I was starting to realize that both the elegance of cloud-based software and the business models it enabled were what really got me excited. So I had a business plan, a product, and funds enough to buy some time to figure the rest out.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. However, you can certainly raise some of the capital through bootstrapping and the rest via seed funding.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. In it we explicitly state: “The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models….What

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

The structural role of a board of directors is corporate governance, specifically, making sure that the company is managed in accordance with the interest of the shareholders (and if liabilities exceed assets, the interest of debtholders), and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. WHAT DOES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS DO?

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

happens every year, but the speed at which summer travels relative to the rest of the year catches me by surprise. This whole process got me thinking about the textbook business model. Labels: business models , Grateful Dead , textbook. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture News.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

Now, there are bills on the table that would basically allow the government to shut down my website—my entire website—for putting up content that someone else has the rights to. This is what movie studios and the rest of the SOPA supporters need to do. Back to Senators Schumer and Gillibrand.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Of course people said they may be participating in this because what they really care about is how much they increase their salary and all the rest of that, and what is opportunity flow. Maybe even what your business model is in its mature, large form. Appeal to them in a conductivity, but transform them. Now, scale it up.”

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Needless to say, this isn’t a business model that works in the pandemic world. Frequently, however, you need to pivot your business model and find new ways to make money. Business model evolution is the rule, not the exception. Or, “Are we taking new risks?”

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

A similar trend is happening in alternative energy, the industry that has greatly benefited from both venture capital and US government assistance over the past decade. This does show that venture backed companies have a huge impact on the US economy. Labels: Andy Grove , economics , venture capital.

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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. You could sense them squirming on the hook, but you knew there would be no rest for them till theyd signed up. They can take months.

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