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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. Instead, they search and pivot until product-market fit is found. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. How Venture Studios Work.

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7 Ways To Validate Your Business Idea Before Starting

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation. Minimize infrastructure dependencies.

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7 Due Diligence Checks On Your Idea To Save Some Pain

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation. Minimize infrastructure dependencies.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Yet while we had plenty of language and tools for execution, we had none for search. The result?

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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers.

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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers.

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Ways To Make Your Website More Secure

YoungUpstarts

With each passing day, we hear of new leaks of information over the internet, including IDs and passwords, top-secret classified government data, credit card information, personal nude photos, and much more. Cybersecurity is of utmost importance to anyone who runs a website. Update Software. . Use a Secure Host.

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