Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. Business model doesn’t make money. Even a non-profit has to generate revenue (or donations) to offset operating costs. No intellectual property. Inexperienced team.

Intellectual Property 274

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral Early Stage 274

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) Expect little or no revenue for 2- 3 quarters after they start. Therapeutics Channel = what you’re selling in the early stage is data and Intellectual Property to the pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Distribution 231

Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 231

Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. Business model doesn’t make money. Even a non-profit has to generate revenue (or donations) to offset operating costs. No intellectual property. Inexperienced team.

Intellectual Property 183

Intellectual Property Startup Viral Early Stage 183

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Investors are wary of startups with no intellectual property, even with a first-mover advantage. Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Real customer revenue and thousands of new users represent traction and are the best indication of fundability.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Angel Investor Reputation 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

Cloud 237

Cloud Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 237

K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

or by using keyword search, which doesn’t really cut it. Their business model was to provide retailers with a new interface for shopping for soft goods — something that hasn’t changed a whole lot since Web 1.0. Their site — Modista.com — started out with shoes. Modista had built Shopping 2.0.

Software Review 134

Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm. You are writing about the essentials of business. That is, understanding your business model and the different variables that go into it. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Southern California Startup SEO 150

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.   Pre-bubble Siliicon Valley deals were popularly valued at multiples of revenue.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Here’s what Costolo wrote in his post: As our primary concern is the long-term health and value of the network, we have and will continue to forgo near-term revenue opportunities in the service of carefully metering the impact of Promoted Tweets on the user experience. Twitter Ads.

API 87

API Intellectual Property Advertising Social Media 87

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. Anyone wanting to be able to do their job or a run a business would find this extremely difficult.

Government 79

Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

That means the vast majority of privately held companies are still very dependent on venture money to stay in business. Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Add to this that 72.7% just my 2 cents.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62