crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. The danger of waiting to long to find a business model? In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link].

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. We discussed guerilla p.r., product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Thus, I have come to the conclusion that if I could help a million entrepreneurs globally reach $1 million in revenue (and beyond), that would be the foundation of a robust, distributed, and sustainable economic value creation that would add up to a trillion dollars in global GDP. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

During the last three years he’s worked with over 100 companies, many of which established Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

Keep in mind that tech businesses are successful all around the nation, not just in Silicon Valley. Some businesses are even building fully remote workforces to avoid the high costs of living and working in the highly saturated Bay Area. . This demographic is historically neglected by more traditional banks.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

In this post we’re going to offer a new definition of why startups exist : a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. A Business Model. Ok, but what is a business model ? A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. The first company started as a BBQ catering business, and eventually focused in on their most popular product, a dip made of blended up chicken plus various sauces. BACK 9 DIPS.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

Does your business always seem to be trying to catch up with new competitors and changes in the marketplace? One of the things I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that you must always focus on three steps ahead, as well as on what exists today. Look outside your industry for new technologies and models.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

So, it’s time to fix the traditional business plan and replace it with a planning process that works. Lean Planning is a faster and better business plan solution. Lean Planning is a 4-step process that helps you discover a business model that works and manage a company successfully. Your business strategy.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Don’t let Silicon Valley fool you—millenials are the least entrepreneurial generation | Quartz – [link]. Downfalls of Distributed Startups – [link]. “sometimes you have the right product but the wrong business model.” “sometimes you have the right product but the wrong business model.”

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. We should remind them that, as Steve Blank said, “a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” The list goes on.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The first pitch was for Coat Chex, a company using a tablet app to make coat checks (and other “bailment” businesses such as valet parking, dry cleaning etc.) Looking past the cheesy theatre of the guys pitch, this company was the one most likely to actually pitch a real Silicon Valley VC, given its technology angle.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

They are putting Innovation Outposts into Innovation Clusters -in particular Silicon Valley – to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. (An In the last five years, hundreds of large companies have established Innovation Outposts (and here ) in Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This reality has fostered a popular startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Picking the right model can dramatically affect the speed and profitability of growth. Channel pivot. Technology pivot.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. It’s also steps away from the Rlab , the mixed-reality accelerator we recently graduated from and maintain close ties with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This reality has fostered a popular new startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Picking the right model can dramatically affect the speed and profitability of growth. Channel pivot. Technology pivot.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The next week they came back in class and presented this : Each week we’d teach them about one more part of what makes up a business model. Like all great Silicon Valley companies they started with a technology and guessed who the customers will be. All teams struggle with finding product/market fit. Massive pivot.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Faith-based Entrepreneurship At first, entrepreneurship is a Faith-based initiative. Order Here. Now In Print!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. Like Slack, Canva launched with two things in its favor: it was different from anything around at the time (a design platform for non-designers), and it had a freemium business model. The result?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. He forgot a major highlight of the business model, and the damage was done. A good example is the marketing technology sector.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

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?

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

But my perspective, as a high school student growing up in the Silicon Valley at the time, was different. And it was a big change in business models. The 90s was about wrapping your head around a shift from isolated box software to writing software for connected boxes with changes in business models.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

This reality has fostered a popular startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Picking the right model can dramatically affect the speed and profitability of growth. Channel pivot. Technology pivot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Why liberal arts undergraduate degrees can be more valuable than economics / business undergraduate degrees. . ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). TechCrunch article.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2010

By getting out of the building on a team project, the class helped students viscerally understand that a startup is a search for a profitable business model. Students formed teams, came up with a business idea then talked to customers, vendors and sales channel partners to validate their business model.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” Today, commercial companies have their own satellites providing unclassified imagery.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

The pre-pandemic economy was characterized by a mysterious, decades-long decline in business formation. Although the media has been full of inspiring stories about start-ups in Silicon Valley, the reality is that the rate at which Americans have been starting companies has been in decline for a long time.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Innovation – Business Model? At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Where do the ideas come from?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

Based off the “Pitch then Plan” template originated by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, I believe in creating a strong pitch first and then building a business plan based on it. Slide 3: Introduce your business model. Because if you get the pitch right, you’ll get the plan right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

His posts are born of tremendous research into the secret history of Silicon Valley , and if you haven’t read those essays, you should. For software companies especially, scaling distribution and development is comparatively cheap. Let me be clear: Steve is the historian. The old ways aren’t working.

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