Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem-solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. Register some intellectual property.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

If they decide to buy, large companies can: license/acquire intellectual property. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. Startups are those companies that are still in the process of searching for a business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. Register some intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. Register some intellectual property.

Intellectual Property 253

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction to investors, as well as your team: Document your business plan. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

A startup is all about "execution" - meaning the equity should be allocated based on the value that each partner brings to the table in each of these dominant variables: Experience running a startup business. Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. Pre-existing intellectual property.

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