Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. In reality, they need a separate pitch about the business, carrying over only a slide or two about the solution. Remember, investors are buying into the business, not the product.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 8, 2019

Luvleen launched BankMobile in January 2015 – when she was only 28-years-old – with the understanding that everyone needs financial services, yet it is one of the least customer-centric industries that exists today. I then decided – prior to founding BankMobile – to study strategic management at Wharton Business School.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It was stimulated by a recently announced spending increase of 18% for the 2015 budget, borrowing $4 million from the general fund for the municipal utility effort. Beth Hartman recently reached out to me with an extremely clear point of view that parallels mine. By Brad Feld and Beth Hartman.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

More recently over the past few days, projects such as Loot, the N Project and Bloot emerged that distributed building blocks on the blockchain for people to create their own games and game economies. The Philippines and SE Asia have been the largest markets to date for Yield Games.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Image via Flickr by Side Wages Some entrepreneurs forget that they need an innovative business model along with an innovative solution to have a successful startup. Inventors alone, or business gurus alone, generally fail. Investors want proof of a business model and real customer revenue, as well as a product.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. But clearly 2015 saw the bloom come off the rose for this group of companies broadly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Too many entrepreneurs look for that one magic bullet -- an exciting new technology, perhaps, or their own determination to make the world a better place -- to override any shortcomings in their startup model. Yet, magic bullets are not sufficient to assure business success. Product distribution or service delivery.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. ” and our first instinct as entrepreneurs and business owners is yes, let’s do drive-through. What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

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. They’re looking for guidance on building the company, the ability to tap into a VC’s network, and help with potential business opportunities.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The business model. One-Page Business Pitch Template.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

However, as a successful entrepreneur who has built one of the largest IoT hardware supply chain platforms, I know first-hand that the philosophy of “democracy for all” rarely makes its way into the business world. Ernst & Young awarded Kang the 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year, China.  Analysts forecast that 6.4

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And so that initiative of #optoutside started in 2015 but it still exists today. At street level, that’s a whole other type of entrepreneur. And often they have new business models. But so if we are going to talk about it, then we should talk about it in a really authentic way. And they do that. And it has grown.

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