Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2012

You need to find vendors who can deliver in less cost and time than competitors, and build distribution and support channels. Even at early stages, you can get invention support services from sites like Invention Home in Pittsburg. After the market and product have been validated, the real challenge comes.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2010

You need to find vendors who can deliver in less cost and time than competitors, and build distribution and support channels. Even at early stages, you can get invention support services from sites like Invention Home in Pittsburg. After the market and product have been validated, the real challenge comes.

Entrepreneur 236

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. government needs your help,’ and I remember saying, ‘The U.S. government accelerator that takes no equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Since email is so important as an acquisition channel (and since likely nothing else works for them), I choose one of my three favorite email marketing metrics , CTDR. How about if I scroll through most of the story then a subtle pop-up from the bottom-right asking me to amplify via my social channels? I love governments!

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. There were no sales people in the USSR – the government just decided what to produce and in which quantities, – so I pretty much have an anti-­sales­-and­-marketing background. Step 2: Choose your sales channels.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.) I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. Here’s how.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For Niesh, the programme culminated in a collaboration that brought together 15 entrepreneurs, investors, academics and government representatives with startup experience to answer the question “where to grow next.” New Zealand startups need to know that the local market is limited by the relatively small population of 4.8

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

It looks forward to a world where users and creators govern the Internet and the economics flow more fairly to the creators directly via the platforms. As an investor, it’s not always easy to assess the team at the very early stage, especially if they didn’t come from working in the space before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

Developer 243

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc. Lessons Learned.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

In Khanna’s conception, the way to achieve “national excellence” is to re-envision freedom not just as “freedom from excessive government regulations and interference,” but rather the “freedom to live up to one’s potential.” This holds true not just for economic matters, but also civic ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: 10. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs. Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit.

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Entrepreneur Startup Equity Small Business Administration 283

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

Warrant 224

Warrant Angel Investor Early Stage Distribution 224

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc. Lessons Learned.

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 226

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2011

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

Due Diligence 120

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 120

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 21, 2022

Data integration enables retailers to manage sales, labor hours, inventory, and other critical indicators across their many locations and channels. It is still in the early stages of development, but with the addition of AI, things in the banking business may get easier, as they can quickly mine data for anomalies and outliers.

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Architecture Cloud Early Stage Finance 52

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

How this research is transferred outside the university, and why this “tech transfer” process is important was the focus of an interview with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). In the 20th century) the U.S.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together. If we’re correct, we can compress the time for commercializing scientific breakthroughs and reduce the early stage risks of these new ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

Other aspects of organizational governance. Distribution Channel. During the early phases of any company, it is quite probable that the product or service will also be in the early stages of development. The selection of Senior Officers. The establishment of a dividend policy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2010

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

Warrant 205

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

LDR Ventures was formed with a very clear goal, to help early stage companies and entrepreneurs of all genders, races and places to succeed. We are working with a dozen partner organisations including non-profits and government agencies. Image Credit: Drew Koven. 24 – Gap in the Market.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

The structural role of a board of directors is corporate governance, specifically, making sure that the company is managed in accordance with the interest of the shareholders (and if liabilities exceed assets, the interest of debtholders), and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. WHAT DOES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS DO?

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this year, I was pleased to learn that the UK Government was planning to appoint a Tech Envoy to the U.S. – Now, in addition to assuming the role of Consul General in San Francisco on behalf of the UK Government, Joe will also serve as Tech Envoy, managing tech and entrepreneur relationships for the UK Government.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

There Ought to be a Law Nowadays there are laws that allow you to back out of a time-share condo contract, or used car purchase after seven days because even the government believes there are times when grown adults lose their minds and stand up and yell “Yes I believe, sign me up!” We understood none of this. More detail in future posts.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. As the number of startups has exploded over the last 30-40 years best practices have been developed that can be shared from one early stage company to the next. Low handicaps weren’t good!

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. He's been an early stage investor in entrepreneur since 1987. When they think about the board, including reasons why early stage entrepreneurs and startup entrepreneurs don't create boards. Marketing Podcast with Brad Feld.

Startup 86

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The dominant channel by which we reach customers is the Internet, whether you''re a small local restaurant on Yelp or a global maker of tissue paper. Unfortunately, as founders, we''re so enthusiastic, so governed by our reality distortion field, that we often run the experiment and then find the results we want.

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The Next Web

JUNE 6, 2013

Sansam also maintains that small businesses aren’t put off by the group’s association with government. The organisation works with a range of companies from different industries such as EMI, the BBC, Channel 4, MTV UK, Samsung, YouTube, Lionsgate Films, the BFI, HarperCollins, Random House, Tate, The Design Museum and a host more.

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