Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

I’m partnered with four great organizations to deliver the program. In addition, the leading experts in building entrepreneurial companies and regions, TechStars and Startup America are partnering with us in this endeavor. And we are looking for other partners worldwide to help make this successful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) are announcing a program to launch two new clean energy incubators at Texas universities. This program will make two awards of $200,000 each to build clean energy incubation capability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Incubator Silicon Valley North America Startup 398

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

the teams spent the last two weeks learning what activities, resources and partners they would need to actually deliver their solution. And they’re getting a handle on what it costs to build a company to deliver it. Partners are the external resources (third parties) necessary to execute the Activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

The professors know how to get grants to fund development for you in strategic focus areas, like biotech, that would otherwise cost you many thousands of dollars. If you need experienced partners and vendors, the best professors and entrepreneurship staff will have the contacts you need in the local business community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property Wiki Cofounder 153

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success. Most incubators start their program with some aptitude and business acumen tests. Costs, returns in equity and funding access.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Depending on what a startup needs, the cost and equity share will vary — ranging from a full scope of projections, a business plan, and modeling, to a simple consulting partnership. Startup Labs get involved in the life of the company and become its business partner from all angles, which increases its likelihood of succeeding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. Here are some key positives from an entrepreneur perspective: Shorten the time and cost from idea to prototype. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 257

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. But to prevent confusion with basic R&D, these costs should never be called out the major category in your use of funds statement to investors. Commercial product prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. The process is long, but it doesn’t cost you any equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

They provide peer group organizations, usually called incubators, with free resources, practice environments, and outside mentoring that can help you learn and pivot with minimal cost. Initiate networking to find peer partners and investors. Write a business plan and pitch deck for learning.

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Entrepreneur Arizona Incubator Programming 394

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 4, 2011

At the same time, I personally observed at the startup incubator of Telecom ParisTech the impact of one co-founder leaving his company after 18 months. We were denying our prospects the possibility to contact us in a highly cost-efficient manner. CRM and support tickets were already in place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

In my experience as a business advisor and occasional investor, many of you won’t make it that far, succumbing to the high costs of getting those first customers, funding an initial inventory, and building an operational support process. Don’t let your passion and “can-do” attitude convince you that you can overcome all financial realities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. The process is long, but it doesn’t cost you any equity.

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Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 436

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 233

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. But to prevent confusion with basic R&D, these costs should never be called out the major category in your use of funds statement to investors. Commercial product prototypes.

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Early Stage Angel Investor Incubator Government 412

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2011

As you may recall from previous roundtable posts, that 1M/1M works closely with many incubators around the world. We simply offer our services as an extension of the incubators' existing programming. Of course, the significantly lower cost-structure in Romania helps a lot. 123ContactForm.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. All of the strategies above have very modest fixed cost.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Anyone who has ever been an expatriate founder will attest to the importance of this as foreign shareholding limits often force founders into taking on the wrong local partner. But the smaller emirates, such as Ras Al Khaimah, have many of the same advantages, at a fraction of the cost. There is also a cost question.

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Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with beneficiary company.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 149

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. Attendees “get hands-on experience, insight, tips and tricks from AWS experts on how to architect [their] applications, optimize [their] costs and deploy quickly to the AWS cloud.” 1) Corporate Venture Capital.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

David Teten

JULY 25, 2011

The event featured 6 newly-minted FinTech Innovation grads (selected out of 90) showcasing their progress after 3 months of incubation. If you’re looking for more thoughts on the event, check out Ryan Kim ’s GigaOM post. This was a demonstration of the level of quality that some NY startups are achieving.

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Software Review New York City Technical Review Due Diligence 114

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Since then, I have been teaching Customer Development and running Lean LaunchPad style classes at variety of universities, national research laboratories, incubators, and startup communities throughout Japan. After three years of evangelizing, I am very pleased to see success cases emerging in Japan by following Customer Development Model.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. Innovation and improvement occurs in Horizon 1 on process, procedures, costs, etc. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Product management for Horizon 1 uses existing product management tools such as StageGate ® or the equivalent.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. The process is long, but it doesn’t cost you any equity.

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Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. 4mm in Series A.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

For current founders, in our hyper-pressurized worlds of being incubated, accelerated, and constantly switching modes between pitching and executing, how do we successfully navigate the labyrinth to success? by Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession. 2014 will be a formative year for new business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Startup Balance Sheet Non-Compete 210