Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Products that are sold commercially and to the DoD are called “dual-use.”). We discussed whether 1) that was true or just anecdotal 2) if true, was it the same in other research universities, 3) why it happened (software startups are getting funded at obscene valuations)? The goal is to meet its local chip demand by 2030.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Using NextView as an example, since we both seek to lead the seed round and only lead during this round, I’ve seen this trend manifest in one of two ways: In a priced round, the entrepreneur will often share their valuation ask (or a stated floor) for the pre-money valuation of their company much sooner in the process.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Consumers are becoming increasingly health-conscious and seeking to understand their options for treatments and healthcare products. Regarding extended reality, gaming is a key sector for popular jobs that do not demand advanced degrees but do require a desire for online gaming. Thanks to Max Whiteside, Breaking Muscle ! #3-

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The main value propositions are: user experience and value – home sellers can manage the entirety of their selling activities through its app and cloud-based platform, from valuation to showing scheduling to negotiation and closing, while paying a $5,000 flat fee vs. the industry tradition of 3% commission.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2024

The Shark Tank hook is simple: Identify a unique and usually as-yet-unmet need in the marketplace, create and produce a product that satisfies that need, and then hopefully cash in on it for big bucks. In 2022, media ratings and analytics giant Nielsen estimated Season 14’s average viewership at 4.2 million people per episode.

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North America Artificial Inteligence America Valuation 151

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

You must have a prototype or a minimum viable product (MVP). To fund the sudden spike in production, funds will be required for additional inventory and wages. In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Those that do it right also have the unprecedented opportunity to join the elite ranks of 250 unicorns (relatively new companies with a current valuation of over $1 billion). Most investors expect a minimum viable product (MVP) sold to at least one customer. Thus you have to do your homework to stay ahead of the crowd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As the risks below get eliminated the higher the valuation investors are prepared to pay. You’re unlikely to want to make this sort of investment with the product or the market not yet validated. That’s stupid.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Trillion Hours, 218 Billion Downloads – demand for new apps and games still grows globally, up 7% YoY.

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Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. The movement has long since spread across the country and across the globe, spawning innovative products such as the MakerBot Digitizer and all the things you can access from Thingiverse.com. Diversity breeds success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. Supply and demand ignored. We all believe that supply and demand meet to create stable prices (reflexive). But sometimes higher prices create higher demand, causing a boom. High valuation, low profit. Cheap money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

It’s higher risk, but higher return, to pick the big winners early, before Angels have set unreasonable valuations and restrictive terms. More sources of funding for early-stage startups may drive up valuations on these deals, which will lower the returns for the Angels and super-Angels willing to do these deals.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Manage Product Portfolios: Businesses often own several different products that they sell to other targeted consumers. Each product has a diverse customer base and demand trends. Not every product aims at the entire market. Such information is vital in making production and marketing decisions.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

So, it is important for the entrepreneur to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business. First: Product risk. . Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to. compete in the marketplace?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

If you can check these boxes and convince venture capitalists that you’ve achieved product fit in a market with plenty of room for growth, you have a real shot at securing funding. The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 370

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With a present valuation of over $35 billion, the frozen food market is likely to increase in size by 1.3% That is a 40% increase in value from the market’s 2018 frozen food business valuation of $260 billion. The rise in its value is directly related to the increasing demand for frozen food products. Source: Unsplash.

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Valuation Demand Business Plan Social Media 164

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

With the daily demands of running a business along with the financial pressures and challenges inherent in early-stage companies, a business valuation may not be the first thing an entrepreneur thinks of when he awakes each morning. When does a startup company need a business valuation? by Janet Chase, Kaufman Rossin.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

. #1- Plan right and strategize Photo Credit: Brian David Crane One piece of advice I used to hear a lot was, “If you build it, they will come” The belief behind that statement was that if you can offer a good service or build a good product with all its bells and whistles, people will buy it. But now it is totally different.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

While statistics are weak on startup success rates, the worst one I’ve seen suggests that 2 in 1000 venture backed startups will ever achieve $100-million or more in valuation. The “it” is a physical or web product they’ve often been locked-down, pounding away at, for many weeks. . ——————-.

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Startup Cofounder Customer Development Viral 333

Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

In recent years we’ve seen mega-rounds of investment and sky-high valuations. billion Series D round giving the company a valuation of about $14 billion!* You’ll get quicker and quicker each time you do it, and soon your reputation will precede you due to pent-up demand from buyers and sellers. They raised a whopping $2.4

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

Startups in the cybersecurity sector are facing a daunting market environment , contending with decreased valuations and increasing pressure to sell while competing for vital funding and collaborations.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

From breakthrough online products to new features from established platforms, today’s startups should be jumping on the most promising of tomorrow’s trendy technology. Companies, products and technologies that successfully cut through the clutter and deliver meaningful value will be in high demand.

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API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

Gumroad , a software that allows content creators to easily sell digital products, gets straight to the point with their unique selling proposition (USP) : They state exactly who their target audience is: creators. Figure out how your product uniquely fits into the market and drive that message home. More on this later.

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ithacaVC

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

I have written about startup valuations previously. If you are advising startup founders, I strongly suggest having them read all 4 of the posts to get the lay of the startup valuation land. There’s a reason it’s so difficult to figure out – valuations have little basis in reality for early stage companies.

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Valuation Startup Down Round Early Stage 69

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people. In France in some ways it was worse because if you failed as a startup founder you shouldered personal liabilities that don’t exist in the US under our bankruptcy laws.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 13, 2024

Impact on Corporate Earnings and Stock Valuations Economic indicators play a crucial role in shaping corporate earnings and stock valuations. For publicly traded companies, factors like consumer spending, industrial production, and business sentiment directly influence revenue and profitability.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to hit a happy medium with backers, not giving away too much but not making overly aggressive demands. “And if you have a valuation cap; a higher cap is always better than a lower cap.” The primary terms for these types of transactions are the valuation cap and the conversion discount.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

I think that the number of players in this devloping class of what I’d call “Micro VCs” will continue to increase over the coming years: the model fits into an opportunity on the capital supply side, as well as more importantly becomes the right product for many entrepreneurs on the demand side. Structural.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The company sought to raise $125,000 for 25% of the comapny, implying a $375,000 pre money valuation. Unsurprisingly, all the sharks passed, based on market size and valuation expectations. Shelton came under intense questioning about how she justified her valuation given no proof of demand.

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Pre-Money Valuation Offshore Valuation Cofounder 97

Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. Others believe in the start small, grow strong approach: build a small version of the app, test user demand, and then take it from there. This could have validated their interest and provided me with a tangible proof of demand. Priorities change.

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Technical Review Distribution Redemption Demand 96

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 17, 2020

From innovative products to geographic location, you can find out what attracts your ideal customers to you. This information can help you position your products and create marketing messages to: Increase click-through-rates in online advertising. Reducing the number of product returns or subscription cancelations. eCommerce.).

Marketing 114

Marketing Intellectual Property eCommerce Advertising 114

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I know – I was there when the first people debating funding it at less than a $5m valuation. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.

Technical Review 362

Technical Review America United States Partner 362

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2020

Before looking for an investor, you or a partner need to demonstrate an understanding of the implications of startup valuation, revenue projections, break-even, and ROI. They position competitors as a base for their solution advantages, and an indication of existing market demand. Practice excellent communication and listening skills.

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Entrepreneur Angel Investor Valuation Leadership 312