Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. The company was called Red Beacon. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

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 Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app. Business to Consumer (B2C) – It is the most common type of business model. For example, manufacturing companies use On-demand courier delivery apps for kickstarting their production activities in their factories and plants.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. Supply and demand. He turned to Mike Jones at Science who was newly set up as an accelerator of sorts or a venture studio. Like oDesk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Solution and business model innovation require pushing the limits. Self-demanding beats boss-demanding every time. A business model is not an after-thought. Passion and ego are no substitute for a business model that makes sense. Startup successes are never perfect.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Business Model Demand 233

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2023

Solution and business model innovation require pushing the limits. Self-demanding beats boss-demanding every time. A business model is not an after-thought. Passion and ego are no substitute for a business model that makes sense. Startup successes are never perfect.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Business Model Demand 229

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Remember, a year from now no one wants to be the CEO of a company out of business whose lament is, “I did what the board told me to do.”. This plan has three parts: Pivots to your new business model, changes to your operating plan, and what initiatives you save for the recovery. What does your board suggest?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 257

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Customer Development is growing fast here in Japan, with Lean LaunchPad programs in great demand among entrepreneurs and “wanabees” learning to build hypothesis and test them by getting out of the building. Some have actually established new startups with tested business model hypotheses under their belt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

If possible, quantify these in non-technical business terms, such as dollars saved or replacement costs over time. Provide specifics on the customer business model. Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Below, we aim to guide you through essential tips and considerations to ensure your business succeeds in this burgeoning industry. The mobile IV therapy sector presents a unique chance for entrepreneurs to meet increasing consumer demand for convenient healthcare solutions.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2022

If you also face this task, pay attention to external sources with a good business reputation (reports of large analytical and consulting companies) or contact a specialist to confirm the statistics from the Internet. Drawing Up a Financial Business Model. Business model. Problems and solutions. Marketing plan.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Attractive Consumer Opportunities in 2025 and Beyond While there hasn’t been a blockbuster IPO for consumer tech companies (mobile apps, B2C model startups) that matches the scale of Uber, Airbnb, Roblox, DoorDash, or Unity over the past 5 years, it feels like the momentum for consumer tech is rapidly changing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Why, then, are so many founders so reluctant to invest even 500 or 1,000 hours upfront to be sure that, when they’re done, the business they’re building will face genuine, substantial demand or enthusiasm. Without passionate customers, even the most passionate entrepreneur will flounder at best. Dropbox is a great example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model. At Amazon, Jeff Bezos leads a relentless drive to invent dramatic new ways to delight customers, not waiting for customer demands or competitors to show the way.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. For example, our goal could be: Create demand for our products and drive it into our sales channel. Painful and invaluable” was her reply. Here’s how. with a strategy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Price is not an exercise in maximizing some micro-economic supply/demand curve, slapped post-facto onto the product. Rather, it fundamentally determines the nature of the product and the structure of the business that produces it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. In my experience as a new business advisor, a business is nothing until people are aligned and work in sync. Customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

A platform is a business model and capability that can be accessed and customized by external users. Jeff Bezos always instills a sense of urgency by demanding business plans from business leaders on how they would disrupt their own lines of business. Stay hungry even when you are successful.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It could also be they’ve grown too fast and can’t keep up with demand or didn’t know how to budget the funds they had. You need to continue to pump money into your business or risk startup failure. While that example is more extreme, the same principle applies to any business. Lack of demand or interest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

There is nothing wrong with a focus on making the current business model work better. Creativity and innovation are fragile business elements, and they can be easily starved, smothered, and trampled by the larger daily operational demands and old ways of doing things. Decisions made lower down always get more buy-in.

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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. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

These hypotheses span the gamut from who’s the customer(s), to what’s the value proposition (product/service features), pricing, distribution channel, and demand creation (customer acquisition, activation, retention, etc.). customer relationships to create demand. activities necessary to implement the business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Choose a business model that will win in the market. You need a business model that provides a good return for you and your team, long-term growth, value to your customer, and differentiates you from competitors. Beware of the allure and demands of early adopters.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Within each brand there were several models at different price points. Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products with new models rolled out every year. Think of the iPhone and its yearly new models.). What Does GM Have to Do with Tesla And Elon Musk?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The supply vs demand mismatch is further exacerbated by existing supply concentration in certain geographies (often big cities). By removing physical boundaries, the care delivery modality provides an obvious advantage to more efficiently match geographically unbalanced provider supply with patient demand. . Affordability .

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

Even for startups, it takes years for a new product to become good enough to demand many millions of dollars in revenue.). So the shift to mobile meant Facebook’s business model was breaking. One option is to build the new product in-house; this could take two years and millions of dollars. This had to be remedied.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Market research involves gathering information about potential customers in your target area, competitor strategies, pricing scales, and demand patterns amongst other things. Developing a Business Plan The findings from your market research should form the backbone of your comprehensive business plan.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2020

When starting a business, you will have many endeavours whether you have a small or large capital. Aluminium joinery business has been one of the most stable business for the past decade. Aluminium and Its Uses. Aluminium is a strong, lightweight metal with relativity soft and malleable properties.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

There is nothing wrong with a focus on making the current business model work better. Creativity and innovation are fragile business elements, and they can be easily starved, smothered, and trampled by the larger daily operational demands and old ways of doing things. Decisions made lower down always get more buy-in.

Stock Options 236

Stock Options Incubator Framework Stock 236

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2021

Economic systems rely on supply and demand. With a startup, you may be supplying a product or service, but if there is no demand for it, it’s not going to sell. Many business owners launch startups with the intention of running lean—relying on minimal resources to preserve the business for as long as possible.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

It will enable individuals to understand the travellers’ needs and expectations intimately which can result in new hospitality business models. They understand the need to constantly improve in order to develop resilient hospitality business models hand-in-hand with their employers.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Many academic labs are less interested in market trends and largely ignore competitive landscape and market demands. The principles of the IBE worked to help entrepreneurs expand their insight into the translational process, which enabled superior efficiencies in advancing new clinical research ideas with adaptive business models.

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