Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

I certainly agree that starting a business is fraught with risk, and none of us get it all right the first time. It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Assume passion level defines business opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. You need a viable business model and customers. I see too many technology solutions to world hunger, where constituencies don’t have money to sustain a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business. Specifically, I often point to the NSF or the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for high-tech startups.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

These bubble startups were actually guessing at their business model and did premature and aggressive hype and early company launches and had extremely high burn rates – all predicated on an IPO to raise more cash. Companies struggle to compete while reconfiguring legacy distribution channels, pricing models and supply chains.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

Initially, a startup has no business model and no market share to defend. If they select a business model that targets industry incumbents, they don’t have to worry about upsetting existing customers, partners or distribution channels. Its employees and investors don’t depend on an existing revenue stream.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2024

My lawyers said defending this suit could cost $500,000 just for discovery, and potentially millions of dollars if it goes to trial. Entrepreneurs versus Saboteurs Startups and scaleups outside of companies or government agencies want to take share of an existing market, or displace existing vendors. coffee with Rohan, an ex-student.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants. Join a startup incubator.

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David Teten

MARCH 31, 2012

I’m exceptionally excited to announce that I’m now Chairman and lead investor with some other angels in a new company, Spright Governance Inc. Spright is a spinoff of the Singaporean government, which will leverage their proven expertise and technology to run other cities, states, and nations globally. Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. There’s a much better way. Three common mistakes.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

4- Drop-shipping enterprise Photo Credit: Matthew Magnante It's my proposal The drop-shipping business model involves selling things that are transported straight from the supplier to the client. Your business model involves cooking and delivering delicious meals to people at their places of employment or at their homes.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2024

Having some revenue or no revenue isn’t a big sway either way—but having notoriously difficult to get revenue, such as a school district, government agency, or hospital, will score you a lot of points. If I’m known to invest in mobility startups, I review a ton of different business models. Then, there are nuances.

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Board Effect

JUNE 24, 2020

Just as not all corporations within the same industry have the same business model, nonprofit organizations all need to form the best business model that works for them. The right business model can help nonprofit organizations to successfully meet and resolve the challenges they face. Infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants. Join a startup incubator.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Patient-facing cost is a key driver of healthcare accessibility. Despite the structural and historical factors behind the incumbent cost structure of the US healthcare system, there are opportunities for new digital entrants to innovate around the cost stack and deliver more affordable care. . Affordability .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. The cost of attending a Startup Weekend Next is ridiculously inexpensive. Your team arrives with an initial Business Model Canvas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. Unpredictable forces, such as unrest in the Middle East and China, can quickly change energy cost equations, or availability of critical products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2019

Stay compliant with ATO and government legislation through automated updates to tax and payroll processes. Forecasting how much you need to start your business will, of course, depend on many things, including: Premises – lease establishment, renovations, signage etc. Provide real-time stock and inventory levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. You need a viable business model and customers. I see too many technology solutions to world hunger, where constituencies don’t have money to sustain a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Of course, you can find these elements embodied in many of the business plan templates and tools out there, such as the Business Model Canvas. The business proposals I see often target multiple unrelated segments, such as consumers, enterprises, and government. Show a cost margin of at least fifty percent.

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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. They believe in you above all else.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. Unpredictable forces, such as unrest in the Middle East and China, can quickly change energy cost equations, or availability of critical products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

In my experience as a business advisor and occasional investor, many of you won’t make it that far, succumbing to the high costs of getting those first customers, funding an initial inventory, and building an operational support process. Actively seek out government and local incentives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2023

The cost of doing business in any market is heavily dependent on local transportation, energy, technology, and financial services. These components can totally change your customer value proposition, or the business model that you have honed. Re-validate your business model in every market.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Companies in the semiconductor ecosystem make chips (the triangle on the left) and sell them to companies and government agencies (on the right). Those companies and government agencies then design the chips into systems and devices (e.g. and sell them to consumers, businesses, and governments. Chip Foundries.

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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. They believe in you above all else.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

During such times a firm should take measures that have historically been thought to safeguard it, such as cutting costs, lowering goals, and keeping an eye on cash flow to weather the impending storm. If possible, settle debts before being subject to inflationary costs for your business. 2- Create an emergency fund.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

They cost money. For sure if they remove everything there and rent the space, the renting revenues will pay for a big slice of monthly cloud cost. Talking about the Brazilian market, they can even get a fine from the government because of some missing transactions on that day. For me it’s a waste of time. Physical space.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

Alternatively, you might consider a different business model by stepping into the role of a general contractor bringing in employees or subcontractors to enhance project efficiency. Gain insights into launching your remodeling business and evaluate its suitability for your entrepreneurial journey.

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