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19 Entrepreneurs List Their Favorite Technology Innovation

Hearpreneur

I quickly built a prototype that would connect to each of my bank accounts and aggregate all of the accounts & transactions into one platform. It allows instant access to messages, calls, social media, the internet, and emails. Blockchain is a decentralized and distributed ledger that enables secure and transparent transactions.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Their week 6 business model now looked like this: . Their value proposition had now changed from a wind turbine supplier to homes, to a distributed power supplier to cities and utilities. The Nine Teams Present.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Small Business and the Death of Newspapers

crowdSPRING Blog

For much of the past five years academics, journalists, bloggers, and assorted mass-media-tag-alongs have been heralding the “ death of newspapers ,” the downfall of the publishing industry and the collapse of information distribution as we know it. Consume smartly.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In fact, I don’t think revenue is in and of itself a goal for startups, and neither is profit.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. See Page 269. :).

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Do you know have they distribute their product? Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. Do you know how they create demand?