Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Commercial product prototypes.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s ). Could create and introduce new and disruptive products and/or services for new markets. Academics, consultants, incubators. Silicon Valley, Boston).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Commercial product prototypes.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. Is it that some CEOs are better than others? Are their people smarter?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Commercial product prototypes.

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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. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. These ideas can grow quickly into real products. Mind-expanding for new entrepreneurial opportunities.

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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. 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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This part of the planning process is not about your idea or product, it’s about solving a problem AND satisfying a customer’s need. and “Why they would buy your product?” The biggest thing to remember here is that your customers do not exist to buy your products, you exist for them. Now test it, get feedback, improve and repeat.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. This meant building every possible feature the founding team envisioned into a monolithic “release” of the product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. One of the world's leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries, founder space was ranked number one, the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and entrepreneur magazines. Show us that demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I discovered my product was a “nice to have,” not a “must have,” and we shut the company down a year a later. However, when I looked into the detail, most of them did not have even early adaptors and the problem wasn’t “chasm crossing,” it was that almost nobody wanted their products. All a startup has are mere hypotheses,” and. “in

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

And to be successful in doing business, you must always have a quality product. But before bringing this out to the general public, you have to pass through the challenge of developing this product first. However, product development isn’t a process for you to rush through. It has to be well planned and executed.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Still, a product is nothing without scalability.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. This period of service cultivates unique maturity and efficacy within the talent pool and helps foster a productive development culture within an organization. Thankfully, Israel also happens to be a world-renown incubator for data scientists.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The BIRD Foundation promotes collaboration between Israeli and American companies in various technological fields for the purpose of joint product development. The drug was developed using Bio-Technology General’s expertise in production and purification of recombinant proteins for parenteral use.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. The criteria change after a company reaches the growth stage when it is deemed to have attained product market fit. After that, the money is used to maintain the company’s expansion.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

Though my potential partner was performing well by the numbers, my own productivity was dwindling as I spent more and more time on managing our relationship. In my first year at Wharton, I attended an info session led by David Tisch of TechStars , a well-regarded start-up incubator. Why did I think that? I could hustle.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

During an MBA, you’ll learn decision-making, people management, product development, product promotion, networking tactics, adaptability, financial management, goodwill, and industry analysis, amongst other things. Remember, an MBA will challenge you to improve yourself.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. Six Things Physical Product Development Taught Me About Experience Design | UX Magazine – crowdspring.co/X7NCjD. Ways to think about watches – crowdspring.co/1wpIpQT.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Funding new product research and development is just too risky, with a large time delay before any return is likely.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. has sales offices throughout Korea and over 1,000 retailers carrying its product line, in addition to a local formulation facility.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

This year’s conference will take place at 1871, Chicago’s startup incubator located in the Merchandise Mart. Event Focus. With a theme of ‘The Future of Everything’, this year SeedCon will explore the convergence of established industries with new technologies and the integration of innovative startups with major corporations.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Entrepreneurs who are considering starting their businesses might want to start by looking at this list of qualifications/requirements: The entrepreneur must have an idea for a product or service and understands how to make it happen. Increased Productivity. What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years? The Startup Scene in 2022?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. (See

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. A business model guides an organization to create and deliver products/service and make money from it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment. The movement has spread across the country and across the globe, spawning innovative products such as the MakerBot Digitizer and all the things you can download from Thingiverse.com. Diversity breeds success.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. Jackson, Tumblr, and Dick Clark Productions. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? This education will continue.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model - first by finding product/market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition/activation, partners, costs, etc.). They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

It started with an entrepreneur with an idea for a new product or service gathering funds from personal savings, obtaining money from a friends and family round and soliciting help from anyone and everyone to get the idea off the ground. Advice For The Young At Heart business incubation business incubator Elton Rivas startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Wildfire Interactive.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

You’re going to probably spend a year or two trying to build something where every single hour can be quantified against product development or getting users or doing press interviews or whatever it is; things which hopefully produce concrete results for the product.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? The minimum viable product. Stock buybacks. The Year of the Black Swan. Definitions of common financial terms. A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. Use some customer development to find out. The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits.

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