Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. Yes, it’s a big risk because the market can turn at any time, but if you believe in your product, and if your customers see the value, stop worrying about VCs.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. It says what?!”).

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 12, 2021

MIKE ANDERSON, founder of Leading Great Learning, leadinggreatlearning.com. DR. KEVIN LEICHTMAN, co-founder of TLC Education, tlceducate.com. MONEY-MAKING TIP: Understand the principle of seed time and harvest time, or sowing and reaping. Be consistent and take the right, small steps every day, and a great harvest will come.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2024

Maise (02:50): So the title of the book comes from a real story of my boss, Fidel Bacio, who was the founder and CEO of Bon Appetit Management Company, had this personally transformative experience of visiting a industrial hog operation. We're going to take on the industrial animal production industry. You want to tell that story.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 20, 2020

Something nudged you towards bringing your product or service to the world. The most successful health & wellness brands are clear on what drives them, and they incorporate their “why” into their messaging, packaging, product design, branding, and every facet of their business. This question is not just a thought exercise.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Yet many entrepreneurs only do minimal market research before launching in with their product or service. Harvesting unbiased, objective opinions from across your target audience will help you to spot any flaws in your idea while there’s still time to fix them. The benefits of market research. Asking questions. Solving a problem.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. Your team has had incredible reviews on the UbiGro agricultural product. What is your competitive advantage?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Founder’s New Insight Smart founders are never satisfied with simply executing their current business model, they are constantly observing, orienting and deciding whether their current business model can be made better. But the purpose of this post is what happens when a founder (or large company CEO) finds a better business model.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

She destroyed her natural eyelashes and had yet to discover a product that could repair them. Cox implemented design thinking to create the brand’s flagship product, Wink, a naturally derived oil designed to promote regrowth of lashes and brow. Instagram is overflowing with people sharing beauty products, tips, and advice.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1 We launched our own haircare product line which is a big part of our business. 6 – New Use for Old Product. 1 – Business Model.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2011

This is probably the weakest link of most technical founders. Host product and business reviews – This is common practice in large companies – have the product managers and sales teams present their latest developments and pipelines for the year/quarter. Sow the seeds & harvest the dealflow later.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

My co-founder and I came up with the idea for Cuddle Clones in an entrepreneurial-focused MBA program. She ate a plant-based diet and was always on the hunt for vegan products to help maintain her health, but what she really wanted again was a burger that was vegan and had flavor. 9- Create quality skincare products for men.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Daily Harvest I don’t remember why I decided to join but I remember joining initially and immediately cancelling because I realized that it came shipped frozen. Daily Harvest is the only thing I can plan to have shipped each month as I know I start craving for ice cream at some point. Well, you guessed it. That’s how they get you!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Many very successful, non-technology companies have also been products of venture capital, including Home Depot, Starbucks, and Staples. The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. 3) Raise capital.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2017

by Darshan Mehta, founder and CEO of iResearch. Blended products are built on a simple idea: To make a good idea even better, combine it with another good idea. Blended products are built on a simple idea: To make a good idea even better, combine it with another good idea. Stop thinking you can’t have it all.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2013

It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power. Was this the latest Chinese product to take off in the US? He was driven by wanting to provide a great product. Extreme product passion. . “We don’t make mayonnaise here.”

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2012

“I was raised in the country and had the pleasure of jogging past and interacting with farmstands every morning growing up,” explains Todd Greenfield, founder and president of Stonington, Connecticut-based America’s Farmstand. That’s where America’s Farmstand comes in.

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Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

Andy Meadows is the founder and CEO of Bearhug , an Austin-based customer engagement platform launching today. GetSatisfaction still hosts u nofficial customer communities , and links to them prominently on their website with designations like “37Signals is not yet committed to open coversation about its products and services.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

I’ve always thought of the class as a minimal viable product – testing new ideas and changing the class as we learn. Ended in Week 10 as autonomous button mushroom harvesting. ” “Absolutely crucial to starting a company for a first-time founder. A focus on scientists and engineers. Team MushroomX.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Most successful business plans entail launching a new product, service, or distribution outlet that attacks existing market competitors on what military planners would term an exposed flank. Hospitals could replace their med-surg beds with this advanced product, revitalize their floors, and save millions in rental fees.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Planning for a Harvest. In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person. After the idea/product/service is built, and the market mapped, the company begins to grow. Can they take our product to a new group of customers? Planning for a Harvest. How much synergy?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Jered Lawson , co-founder of Pie Ranch , a 14-acre farm on California’s San Mateo coast that is reconnecting people to their food. Chase Adam , founder of Watsi , is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. Jered Lawson. Chase Adam. There are no donors. …

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. The patent-pending AVA Byte knows exactly what you’re growing and will adapt the light and water schedule to nurture the harvest. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., Do you lack space, time, and skill to garden indoors? AVA Technologies Inc.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. The patent-pending AVA Byte knows exactly what you’re growing and will adapt the light and water schedule to nurture the harvest. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., Do you lack space, time, and skill to garden indoors? AVA Technologies Inc.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Christopher Eonta , Founder and CEO of MolyWorks , has a background in chemical engineering and metallurgy. People are willing to send the scrap once or twice, but then they don’t,” says Christopher Eonta , Founder and CEO of MolyWorks. Wherever the scrap metal is, that’s where you need to be able to convert it into a product again.”

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

NBD Nano co-founder Deckard Sorensen was inspired by the beetle to the point that he created a self-filling water bottle, which he hopes to bring to the market by 2014. One product they talk about is the water bottle that constantly refills itself.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments. are using AngelMob.co

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www.launch.co

JULY 25, 2012

By Jason Calacanis Ive spent the past two decades building products. are the non-stop tormentors of founders. Thats how I approached life, and I made a bunch of products I felt were great. Now it turns out starting companies and making good or great products is not so hard -- making them excellent is.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Are we teaching founders more than they need to know? Even while unemployment has fallen and the stock market has soared, sluggish productivity and anemic wage growth are attributed to this phenomenon. I bring this up because I believe we are often trying to teach founders how to do everything in their startups from scratch.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Not only will a mentally healthy workforce directly translate to direct benefits for the American worker, it will bolster businesses’ bottom lines by greatly reducing lost productivity, absenteeism, and worker’s compensation and disability claims. It is well known that the costs of mental illness in the U.S. are enormous.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

As humans we use many goods in place of ‘natural products’ Rubber is not, our pearls are cultured, catfish farm raised, and yogurt growth managed scientifically. These substitute meat products are different from artificial products such as soy based etc. I just learned today the future of meat is lab grown.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2023

We provide creatively compliant solutions to people who provide products and services in these sectors, so we knew we would need a name that speaks to our cannabis and psychedelic fluency while at the same time normalizing what we do with a conventional-sounding name. I am the founder of NeoCandle where we talk all about scented candles.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2017

6 – Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. I am a Financial Educator & Coach and the founder of Youth Smart Financial Education Services. I’ll call this the harvest. Once the credit score increases, that’s their harvest. Image Credit: Roslyn Lash.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

It’s a great conference with about 150 attendees for the “Starter Edition” -- lots of online course creators, info product folks, SaaS people, and others. I would have continued to scrape by with a product that was conceptually on point, but didn’t have the bells and whistles that customers expect nowadays. Competition is everywhere.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Weaknesses inside the founder team kill startups. The truth is, sometimes you need to replace your co-founders and start over. You’re basically tinkering with everything at this stage – product, marketing, sales, partnerships, etc. Usually it’s because the founders were doing exactly what they needed to do to raise money.

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