SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. same as the old boss.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . Alternative Capital. “

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Small to medium, so I have people that have teams of five people in their company, 20 people in their company up to 200. Jason: For example, like in America, small business is up to 150. I do think that most of my customers are small/medium businesses. Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

For example, you may decide that a small business needs a widget like yours (hypothesis) so you outbound to 100 of them (goals) with a vaporware deck to see if you could sell some pre-orders. You can pay them in dollars, sometimes in pizza, and if your company becomes a real thing, they may want small chunks of equity (think 0.10%).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2012

Eric has done some technology scouting, and believes he can deliver on the specs of the product. The problem, however, is that he is assuming that an investor would fund the product development. Even seed investors generally fund businesses that are already rolling. Investors rarely fund concepts.

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Jacksonville Florida PPC Programming 114

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A well implemented financing program can improve the purchasing experience and help to develop a long-term relationship with your customer. Slow pay is the bane of small businesses. In contrast, the SuperMoney POS platform turns this business model on its head by making access to POS free for businesses and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2013

Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. It’s been around many years, in examples like small business groups or ethnic groups supporting similar efforts. Peer-to-peer lending. Crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2014

Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. It’s been around many years, in examples like small business groups or ethnic groups supporting similar efforts. Peer-to-peer lending. Crowdfunding.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Website, web app, or a mobile app—what would be the right “form” for your business idea ? Since the release of the very first iPhone, everyone has been treating the mobile-first business model as the new gold rush. Learn more about validating your business idea and product concept here.

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Mobile Application Development Web Software Review 81

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

On Bplans, you’ll find templates, free eBooks, and articles on how to plan and start your business. Business Model Generation. This website offers a downloadable worksheet called a business model canvas that helps you think through your business idea. Product development. Edison Nation.

Entrepreneur 60

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Rob Adams, the director of MootCorp, is doing an amazing job at providing value to all participants, whether it’s feedback on their business model or making the right introductions. If winning $5-10K is your goal, you’re not a scalable startup, just a small business.

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Business Plan Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital 152

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2015

I’ve been investing in, buying and restructuring small businesses for over 20 years and it’s a passion of mine to see everyone succeed from employees to shareholders, owners and investors. Here’s how to change your business model in order to mitigate or leverage seasonal demand: Level out revenues. Mitigating Seasonality.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Start Small Finish Big: Fifteen Key Lessons to Start and Run Your Own Successful Business. Author Fred DeLuca shares his experience as the young founder of the Subway restaurant chain, highlighting the most important principles for starting a small business. Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

And then I think in a lot of ways it’s become air for every sort of channel and element and, even as you suggest in your last book, a business model in itself. We think there’s something bigger, as Robert talked about and you talked about, this is a business model change. Can we go ahead and do that?

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Why Ello Really Matters written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Ello is a simple, ad-free, social network created in part as a response to the current business model of most networks like Facebook, which rely on users to sell advertising.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

But for every entrepreneur who has seriously considered the pluses and minuses of working with a dev shop in the context of the specificities of their business model, there are five who are hiring a dev shop because (a) they are lazy, (b) they don’t know any better, or (c) all of the above. Sometimes, it just makes sense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Business growth comes from improving one of these five “knobs”: More stuff means adding products or services, preferably those you know your customers want so you don’t waste time building things they won’t use or buy. We kept hearing over and over that monthly subscriptions was the key to growing a successful SaaS business,” says Ben.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup. But it is not a startup, because its success depends only on decent execution – so much so that this success can be modeled with high accuracy.

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San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Banks are not ready to make a Small Business loan on a company that has yet to launch, break even, or establish a track record. Nevertheless, this is when you get the startup money to kickstart your business with the bare essentials needed to begin making and fulfilling your first sales.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Small Business tools list. small business CRM. Great for visualizing work of product development. outsourcing for small business. cmypitch.com : Network for small business, connecting entrepreneurs with each other, investors and service providers. Lists of Tools from Others.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Developers who understand and can execute on a business model. Four developers who have the ability to take on the following roles while cranking out an awesome product in the early stages.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Listen to it.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

[link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Kellie This couldn’t have come at a better time… I’m about to step into that small business selfemployment arena. How to get there.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

We may be actually quite productive most of the time. Sometimes, as a business owner, things change. Your business model may change. Your business delivery system may change. That’s fine. Some systems change. Some innovations change. Your software may change.

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