Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2016

by Erich Lawson, online marketing manager at Northern California Compactors, Inc. The best places to find financing for a recycling business include the government and environmental agencies. First, consider the legislations that govern the handling and disposal of waste in your area. Waste-holding facilities.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 5, 2010

The point about government holding the keys is symbolic and quite literal because for a wide range of these technologies to become real they will require the consent of regulators and the government pocket book funded by taxpayers.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 25, 2013

In fact, at last year’s Lean Startup conference we had speakers from a number other sectors, including government, transportation, education and public health. Could anything be less like a startup than the federal government? But, as he also said, “Projects within [government] often are.”

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc. Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Newco, Inc.”)

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. Boasting revenues of up to $1.5 Alexa is a small business adviser who operates her own consultancy in Manhattan, New York.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The food truck business pulls in an estimated $804 million in revenue every year, according to an industry report from IBIS World. Documentation requirements: Approved application documents from local government. From thriving cities to rural downtown areas, food-on-wheels is the hip new trend. Food safety training certificate.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. I love governments!

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

We ended up receiving a $5m term sheet from investors, dozens of government customers from all across the western United States, and several offers to acquire us for 10x the initial investment. A simple way to achieve this is by finding the answers to “does it save money, make money, save time, or make operations more efficient?”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

"It was delusional for a guy operating in a walk-in closet, but I was like, 'You live once, you might as well swing for the fences.'" So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. I don't know.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The industries that employ the most CEOs are management (76%), computers (35%), state government (33%), local government (32%) and schools (12%). (1) Many consider the Fortune 500 to be the measure of the world’s largest corporations by revenue and the standard bearer for the CEOs behind those companies. are men and 4.8%

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. They used their existing infrastructure to start getting meals into the hands of those who need it most. Rev Foods rapidly scaled up.

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Transformify

MAY 10, 2023

Misclassification has negative consequences for both employees and companies: Fines : Governments are increasingly cracking down on misclassification to recover lost tax revenue. Misclassification allows companies to avoid paying these taxes, resulting in a loss of tax revenue for the government. and choose the coverage.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

From there, it further shifted to operating its own refrigerated warehouse and fleet of delivery vans to deliver organic foods directly from farmers and specialty suppliers. It might cater to new customers, it might solve a different need, or it might involve a different revenue model. Not all pivots are created equal.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

A business plan is a document that outlines the financial and operational goals of your business. This section gives a brief overview of the industry sector your business will operate in. Operating plan. Any suppliers, manufacturing processes, and any other operating details also appear here. An industry overview.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding. However, we also discovered key challenges we could not overcome with the capital and window of our team.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But for every startup like that, there are twenty more that operate in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure.So A rich companyis one with large revenues. This money isnt revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

These days, every state is looking for ways to scrape out more revenue for failing budgets and costly infrastructure projects. In attendance was Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, espousing how Boston and the Commonwealth government were welcoming of tech startups. Massachusetts needs money. They are about one thing: “Make money.”.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The East London area of Shoreditch, near old street is now known as “ Silicon Roundabout ” the UK’s rival to California’s Silicon Valley, which started as a government effort to rejuvenate East London, the traditionally poorer part of the city, before the Olympics.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The East London area of Shoreditch, near old street is now known as “ Silicon Roundabout ” the UK’s rival to California’s Silicon Valley, which started as a government effort to rejuvenate East London, the traditionally poorer part of the city, before the Olympics.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

We work with non-profits, for-profits, US Government, and international organizations, to identify the underlying goals, the users needs and abilities, and put together an appropriate technology solution to meet the requirements. #7 – Translation of Sundiata. Image Credit: Siobhan Green. We had honed in on a term like visibility.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That means there’s every reason for investors to believe that the strong revenue growth the company has posted is a sign of a profitable future ahead. All you have to demonstrate is that your revenues are growing at a respectable rate and that there are no market headwinds to knock you off your path to profitability.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

Ndemics revenue totals in the "high millions," he added, declining to be specific. TextPlus brings in more than $12 million in revenue annually and the app has been downloaded over 40 million times, primarily through free versions supported by advertising. Opinion: The Reverse-Joads of California. Vaughan has offered Plague Inc.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But Jen has been one of the leaders over this past decade of finding ways to marry technology and government. Donate , come work at Code for America , work in government , or join your local Code for America Brigade ! Back then, very few people in the consumer technology world thought about working for or in government.

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