Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Minimize one-time sales in your business model. You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model. But for those of you who are a real match for the entrepreneur lifestyle, that’s what makes it fun.

Merger 386

Merger Acquisition Software Review Social Media 386

View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

But in a FOMO world, more investors are willing to take a chance on a founder that they don’t know, but seems to match some of the heuristics of other high quality founders. But the risk to founders is that these investors may not be very committed partners and might quickly disengage if things go sideways.

Early Stage 374

Early Stage Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence 374

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Surprisingly if you’ve filled out the business model canvas you already know who you need. She started by sketching her business model canvas on a napkin, but somehow the conversation quickly shifted to what was really on her mind. Or can we outsource these activities to Partners?” ——-.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Dave was building a mobile app for matching college students who needed to move within a local area with potential local movers. As the farm fields flew by on the interstate I listened as Dave described how he translated his vision into a series of hypotheses and mapped them onto a business model canvas. Customer Discovery.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses and agile engineering to build minimum viable products. If you’re familiar with the Lean Startup you know that the Business Model Canvas is the tool to frame all the hypotheses of your startup.

Business Model 335

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is a co-author of The GE Work-Out and The Boundaryless Organization.

Business Model 332

Business Model Technical Review Business Plan Search 332

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2020

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Look for a match in operating style and work ethics.

B2B 388

B2B Matching Partner Algorithm 388

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

A better approach is to first understand who these people are, why and how they invest, and then focus on the ones who are the best match for your particular startup stage, location and industry. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup.

Angel Investor 342

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Portfolio 342

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan Business Model versus Business Plan'

Business Model 224

Business Model Business Plan Technical Review Search 224

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. This experience has provided me a whole new set of pattern matching filters as an investor.

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2 nd Annual International Business Model Competition , hosted by Professor Nathan Furr , and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. But for startups, business plans fail to match the chaotic reality they encounter in the real world.

Business Model 263

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Outside of work is where you can best evaluate the chemistry match, and decide whether you can enjoy and learn from the relationship.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 257

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Each stage needs a clearly defined set of objectives, and the right team to match those objectives. Each stage needs a clearly defined set of objectives, and the right team to match those objectives.

Silicon Valley 120

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

When the Amazon recruitment team responds to an applicant, it is considered a match. They have a really cool business model where they summarize non-fiction books into 15-minute read or listen. For example, Twelve has partnered with Daimler and can recreate ingredients needed to make car parts. 11- Blinkist.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Technical Review Non-Compete Software Review 124

Up and Running

AUGUST 25, 2021

If you can’t find anything that matches your needs, you may have just discovered an opportunity to break into a new industry. Similarly, you don’t want to rely on tools that work well for one business model but not another. Partner with other brands.

B2B 118

B2B Audience Software Review B2C 118

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Each of the teams is assigned a mentor to match their domainv(Head of device R&D of Phillips, Genetech, Crescendo, CTO of UCSF, venture capitalists from Sofinnova, Burrill, Lightstone, M34, etc.). We’ve recorded these panels for each part of the business model canvas. Class Organization – Lots of Moving Parts.

Lean 258

Lean Customer Business Model Customer Development 258

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

It’s a really big idea because what you build needs to match the hypothesis you want to test. Luckily Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas presents a visual overview of the nine components of a business on one page. activities necessary to implement the business model. Generating Hypotheses.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) Or were they 2) an information exchange, providing matching services for cloud computing buyers and sellers, providing matching services.

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Customer Business Model Nebraska Cloud 234

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

A better approach is to first understand who these people are, why and how they invest, and then focus on the ones who are the best match for your particular startup stage, location and industry. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

Search 317

Search Accredited Investor Angel Investor Venture Capital 317

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. They believe in you above all else.

Angel Investor 256

Angel Investor Early Stage Incubator Government 256

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Business is more about people than product. As an angel investor in startups, I often find myself looking harder at the quality of the team and the leadership, than at the details of the product and business model. You need positives to radiate to the team, partners, and customers. percent are "actively disengaged.

Angel Investor 120

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

But while that particular model has seen success, it certainly won’t be the only way that companies will be able to create greater personalization and serendipitous discovery for their customers. It is very difficult to win over customers without matching the jaw-dropping value and service that Amazon has trained consumers to expect.

Internet 209

Internet eCommerce Bankruptcy Technical Review 209

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model. Learn how to put together a business model , not a business plan. Having a teaching partner makes life a lot easier and the class improves.

Business Model 226

Business Model Silicon Valley California Engineer 226

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Outside of work is where you can best evaluate the chemistry match, and decide whether you can enjoy and learn from the relationship.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup.

Angel Investor 314

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Startup 314

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

Lean 385

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

People tell me there are over 5,000 online dating sites, but I couldn’t find one that focused on matchmaking business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Yet, every business expert tells me that finding good business partners is just as tricky as a good marriage, without the sex. Marty Zwilling.

B2B 217

B2B Partner Matching Distribution 217

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. They believe in you above all else.

Early Stage 412

Early Stage Angel Investor Incubator Government 412

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. AskAnything.VC Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. The second class will be firms with a demonstrated ability to continually innovate and reinvent their business models. These innovations do not require change in a company’s existing business model.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

5- Business model innovations Photo Credit: Bram Jansen New forms of commerce and sources of income are becoming possible thanks to technological advancements. especially, there's been a huge social movement of people starting a business. Thanks to James Angel, DYL ! #5- In the U.S. Thanks to Cody Jensen, Searchbloom ! #20-

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology Entrepreneur 106

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. At the start of the 21st century, after two decades and 8 startups, I retired and had time to think about how VCs directed their startups using business plans. experiential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

In reality, many companies now offer a “ clicks and bricks ” business model, with shopping online, and then completing the purchase and support at a physical location. Make sure non-contact experiences match face-to-face. This new definition applies equally to brick-and-mortar stores, as well as online platforms.

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Differentiation Social Media Customer Matching 274

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

For example, TOMS Shoes pledges to match every pair of shoes purchased with free pair for a child in need. That means you need to tune your advertising, business model, and product features to meet multiple cultural norms, and have the broadest appeal. Success means seeking complementary partners and relationships.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Here are our best tips that aren’t overly invasive but have a proven track record of attracting a target base matching your products. If your business model allows, offer a personalized gift in exchange for some basic information. Segment your audience. Give them gifts. Everyone loves a free gift. Leverage technology.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 118