YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I have been involved in many of these innovations, mainly through my last startup venture, a company that became the world’s leading provider of credit card loyalty solutions with bank customers in 30 countries. Too much was at stake, we couldn’t afford the risk of destabilizing everything and losing substantial revenue.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

By Dan Soha, Five Mill Ventures. Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. From restaurants to tech companies, I’ve seeded a number of new ventures with my own marketing know-how instead of just cash.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. release of the product. before you ship.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

We combine expert curation and world-class tech to give businesses an all-in-one solution for streaming music in their establishments, all while ensuring artists and music rights holders are properly compensated. When we first launched, we were shocked at how far behind the background music space was from the consumer streaming space.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

The venture capital market in this category is fairly concentrated among series A and expansion-stage funds that prefer to invest in companies with substantial revenue. Some of the leading health care investors like Venrock will hatch companies or seed very proven teams pre-launch.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads. 20 years ago, a majority of “Sand Hill” venture capital went into enterprise-focused startups. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? Investors love entrepreneurs who understand their business model, and can describe it accurately. In my mind, a "business model" reveals the structure of the profit engine that underlies the venture. When does the venture need the money?

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

There’s a lot of questions about what do you actually need in terms of information, if you’re going to do your forecasting, and how does one put together a revenue forecast if you’ve never started a business or your business is brand new. Are we doing a business loan? When is the new launch?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Interestingly enough, CooTek’s co-founder and CEO, Michael Wong , who was formerly from Microsoft’s R&D unit, took an unconventional route by launching in the Western market first. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. Innovation is more of monetization and the business model.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

A business model must be created out of whole cloth, and generally it’s a compilation of assumptions piled on top of other assumptions. Every model has a happy outcome when a founder is trying to convince himself or herself, a team, an investor, or even a spouse that the venture ahead is a good idea.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

When you’re ready to launch a startup, the name of the game is research. You need to tap every resource you can to learn the ins and outs of business. From securing funding to marketing your business, there’s a lot to consider. This list is broken into categories and is meant to be a one-stop-shop for aspiring entrepreneurs.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,” a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue for the company that is running the service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. You're selling a consumable product, which is a great business model. You really want to see the whole system. I think that's how I really got into health.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I’m a newbie just starting off with my first venture, making websites for clients. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 22, 2006

How to assure yourself that no professional investor will ever want to invest in your venture: » June 22, 2006. If lowered risk translates into higher valuations when the business either attracts investors or is sold, then lowering risk for the lowest possible dollars creates very high returns. Categories. You’ll like it.

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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. Or at least venture-style returns. But most LPs don’t seem geared up to fund new entrants in the Micro VC category. This led to an explosion in startups.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

If your business model (i.e., “how If you are raising money to start or grow your business, you need to include the details of what you need in the executive summary. Remember, your goal is to keep your business plan as short as possible, so too much detail here could easily make your plan much too long.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Some companies are doing just fine in the Facebook ecosystem (Zynga), it is simply not the long term vision I have for my business. Volatility of revenue The subscription model is probably one of the most stable business models and very few Facebook applications are based on it, simply because of the nature of the applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True). Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

When the company was initially launched, its name was awkwardly similar to the chocolate drink YooHoo. Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. Hall Of Shame Names – The Oneder Of It All.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. I think I just really feared working for the Man.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

When I started teaching I launched project teams with this advice: All you need is a half a million dollars to start a company and at most a few million more to scale the company.” Vertical is a reference term (or a category) not an actual industry. Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Now you have Salesforce, Zynga, Yelp in that category and others on their way to it like Twitter and Square.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve studied a host of startup ventures in quest of the patterns behind their success. Despite strong headwind from his employees he insisted on launching a revolutionary music player – the iPod – that features just one button. Billion dollar companies typically fall under one of two categories: Asset #1: “being the best”.

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View from Seed

MARCH 20, 2020

Businesses will be forced to adapt to changing circumstances and seek opportunities to innovate. New, emerging business models will gain tailwinds that propel them forward to new horizons. Venture investment in this space has been increasing over the past five years, peaking at $1.9

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2018

Now it’s in the world domination category. John Jantsch: One of the challenges I see, and I’m strategizing with a startup right now that I think has a decent idea but no business model. He was able to take advantage of what they knew in order to launch Facebook.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

We found six categories of VC theses, plus a 7th: the non-thesis. Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. of venture capital deals. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an 8th: the non-thesis.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

Google’s expertise seems to be buying engineers, many times before a product is even launched. Yahoo, on the other hand, prefers to buy companies that have some nice user base, maybe no revenue model yet, but also before a VC round. It is also clear that the VC model is broken and needs to change.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. Nagraj Kashyap: The Qualcomm Ventures vice president oversees the telecommunication giant’s investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures. and Path Intelligence.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

If you look at any mature category, you’ll find it full of products that are basically the same. I’m a category connoisseur in this case. Commoditization is increasing in every category. If 10 startups launched tomorrow tackling the exact same space—but they couldn’t see what others were doing—what would happen?

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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