Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

He had an idea for a new class of enterprise software insight-as-a-service based on big data web analytics as a Cloud/SaaS (Software As a Service) application. Bob had taken to heart the business model canvas and Customer Development lessons. The VC checked with other IT users and heard the same reaction.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. Board Control. For three decades (1978-2008), investors controlled the board. The founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Our objectives haven’t changed - we’ve always aspired to back great entrepreneurs who are applying innovative applications of software to try to build enduring, important and independent companies. But, I am fascinated by the new “cloud kitchens” type models that are being formed and am hopeful that maybe they will crack the code on this.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Later stage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Imagine there is a hot, bottoms-up $60M revenue B2B software company raising at a $4B valuation. Workday has two segments: subscription services (primarily software) and professional services. Here’s an example: Solid Software Co.currently trades at 8x forward revenue, ~1/3 of the ~24x multiple that Incredible Software Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well. Others have chased earlier-stage but lack the skills or relationships to do this effectively.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Sure, some of the Android devices are beautiful, but if they become obsolete in a year from a software perspective in less than a year , this is going to be a serious problem. What's the business model? With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be.

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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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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns. Programmatic ABM: One-to-many accounts marketing that leverages ABM software to tailor and personalize marketing programs for specific named accounts at scale. ABM means different things to different companies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. We identify great innovative companies with solid business models and help them determine the right growth path for their businesses.

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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. Paraphrasing, he basically said this was “either what it looks like when ‘software eats the world’ or things had gotten overheated.”.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Luckily, San Francisco isn’t the only city in the world, there are other great places nowadays to start a business. Depending on your new business, location does matter. If you are an Internet/software business, take care you pick a location that helps you to start. It’s a lot more vibrant, but Berlin is catching up.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

This same 'later stage can't pay you anything up front' ruse gets done for sales and marketing types, too. New Business Models. Tech Business Environment. The G&A Function in Early Stage Tech. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Two Tales of "Working For Equity". Globalization.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

This meant hiring someone who had experience with much bigger organizations, the idea being that their experience would come in handy at a later stage. The Darwinian competition is so fierce that your organization needs to be all-in on the current stage of scaling. In today’s startup world, this rule no longer applies.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. Software is by far the most sought-after class, with 94% of VCs investing in it. software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g., software” and “deeptech”), and so on.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. They cover funding for small businesses from the initial funding stage to later stages of growth, and other areas in between.

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