Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Early Stage Vertical Sales Business Model 379

Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2014

Giving creative tools to people; creating products and services within communities that serve as both consumers and collaborators; and providing a business model so the creators can realize economic value. The Bottom Up Economy is about the global transition from an industrial economy to a technology-based one.

Technology 93

Technology Vertical Software Developers Software Development 93

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. They have a really cool business model where they summarize non-fiction books into 15-minute read or listen. 11- Blinkist. 19- Hy-Vee.

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Technical Review Non-Compete Software Review 127

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Seattle Elevator Pitch Equity 62

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A recent report from research and policy advisory organisation ‘Start-up Genome’ suggests the COVID crises has forced nearly three quarters of global start-ups to layoff or furlough up to 60% of their staff. Retention of Staff. Compounded with recent events – start-ups top priority should be staff retention, not sales.

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Management Founder Asia Cofounder 194

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Here’s where the money is flowing in Agentic AI October 2024 broke a record in global venture capital deployed, $32 billion in a single month, with AI attracting $12.2B, or 38% of the total funding. The next 18-24 months will be critical as early adopters prove out use cases and business models.

Cofounder 109

Cofounder Open Source Venture Capital Stealth 109

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

But don’t lose sight of the fact that we’re already in the midst of a deadly global epidemic. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. At least 2.8

Ireland 62

Ireland Morocco North America Philippines 62

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Eric Ries in Times Square For any model to be useful it has to predict what happens in the real world – including the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. “What is the “Business Model” of your startup?&#

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 228

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

These are but some of the global startups who are gunning to transform an industry that is, quite frankly, in desperate need of a shake-up. It simply would not work on a global scale. They know everything about their customer (thanks, big data) and have the ability to customize every part of the business for efficiency. .

Global 189

Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

business model and team. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. Here are the ingredients: Business model : This is actually the most important ingredient of the five. Momentum has a way of building?—?and

Bootstrapping 52

Bootstrapping IPO Business Model Software Review 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

Startup 242

Startup Early Stage Vertical Sales 242

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners. This will work for any kind of business. So the large global companies that have figured out how to do that.

Marketing 97

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 97

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. 20% initial ownership.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). This is one of my favorite marketplace business model “tweaks.” As Jeff Bezos is fond of saying, “ your margin is my opportunity.”.

Europe 101

Europe Social Network Technical Review IPO 101

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Hong Kong-based Lots of Buttons beat out 19 other impressive (mostly Asia-based) startups with a business model that revolves around buttons. In fact the e-commerce site aims to be the world’s largest online crafts store, seeking to expand to other craft verticals pending profitability or an angel investment.

Asia 150

Asia Startup Singapore Japan 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

Startup 293

Startup Early Stage Vertical Sales 293

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

. - HT: don''t outsource communication b/c part of core UX even though APIs available - healthy dev environment around APIs, very important to get confidence you can build your platformon on top of them - APIs give you freedom, don''t have to invest both people and tech in maintain internal platforms - HT had to totally revamp their infra, to manage (..)

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API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Multiples dropped in public and private markets, growth expectations were cut, and business models with high spend for promise of future ROI became quite unfavorable. Similarly, for a variety of reasons, the music stopped. The ‘valuation multiples’ reset also came with an increase in slope of the curve.

Valuation 119

Valuation Cap Table Startup Later Stage 119

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

Startup 247

Startup Early Stage Vertical Sales 247

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

Startup 120

Startup Early Stage Vertical Sales 120

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020? We are proud to be a Baltimore-based company with global reach.

Baltimore 62

Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In just a year, Quicc has rocketed into the global marketplace and now serves video creators in 84 countries. Reach the 25,000 global user mark! This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Wichita 62

Wichita Kansas Kansas City Cofounder 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Based in Miami, Florida, Deepblocks is an Artificial Intelligence company building a centralized global platform for analyzing real estate development. It integrates financial analysis, zoning limits, and market data into a single formula that enables instant modeling of development potential in any city around the world.

Artificial Inteligence 76

Artificial Inteligence Miami Architecture Florida 76

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In fact, the food we waste is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions, so wasting less food presents a key opportunity to address climate change. Through being a ReFED Global Innovator , I have the opportunity to partner with like-minded entrepreneurs and track the latest innovations as part of the ReFED network.

Los Angeles 62

Los Angeles Stealth Cofounder Bandwidth 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Supported by both private investors and public funds, including the Innovation Fund Denmark and the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, Radiobotics has the goal to be at the forefront of developing innovative health technology and a mission to develop solutions that benefit both physicians and patients on a global scale.

Denmark 62

Denmark Cofounder Vertical Europe 62

Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently impacting every part of our lives and every part of our work is unstoppable and just at the beginning. From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents.

Software 107

Software Silicon Valley Los Angeles Columbus 107

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

They moved everything to the online model in late 2013, early 2014, and that’s when kind of landed on the current online learning business model. So it is an increasingly global community. So it has become increasingly global over the years. John Jantsch: Yeah, I guess that was my next question.

Community 66

Community South Africa Software Global 66

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Their mission is to end the global addiction to petroleum-based virgin plastics by providing affordable high-grade recycled alternatives. He knows Applied Bioplastics mission to serve humanity and our future global environment may sound like a cliche, but he’s determined to do it.

Cofounder 70

Cofounder Austin Vertical Texas 70

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Vince Molinaro: Well, it’s really came about from working with a lot of my clients globally who had been investing a lot in leadership development, but not see it translate into stronger leadership within their organizations. It’s the model of leadership has evolved, you know? Let’s unpack this word, “contract.”

Leadership 63

Leadership Demand Global Community 63

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies more focused on later-stage companies include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , BizQualify, Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , SourceScrub , Refinitiv , and Unquote. the Untouched Vertical.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

“Going forward, our strategy will focus on creating a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most.” And which global company wouldn’t want to reach customers around the globe? Colour me skeptical.

Engineer 41

Engineer Vertical Framework Acquisition 41

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The global prevalence has jumped as well, going from 108 million adults worldwide in 1980 (4.7 This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. In the United States, in 2018, a stunning 10.5

Technology 65

Technology Cofounder United States India 65

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. The relatively straightforward distribution model in the US for mobile app developers is contrasted by a landscape in China that is simply put, a maze. Innovation is more of monetization and the business model. But on the other hand they have more time.

China 122

China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As Graham, now Founder and CEO, says, “we are the next-gen hardware and software platform for the $550B global beauty industry.” This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. It’s classy.

Architecture 62

Architecture Los Angeles Austin Angel Investor 62

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

The lure to sell: working on their technologies, supported by large teams and resources, and unencumbered by constraints of the VC model. I expect many more to come in the next few years.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

was OK a few months ago, the hurdle is now higher and should be close to CAC>1 – Keep only reps making quota and cut marketing activities with lower ROI Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) >0 – Adjust operations, RD and GA to make your business model profitable 3. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Global Warning!

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48