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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2023
Cofounders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The challenge is for real cofounders to keep their equity percentage above 50%, or they effectively lose control of operational decisions.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 1, 2014
The first is that it could carry limited inventory in stock because it had limited physical shelf space. But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 27, 2017
If they select a business model that targets industry incumbents, they don’t have to worry about upsetting existing customers, partners or distribution channels. Existing companies also use network effects of monopolies/duopolies, distribution channel kickbacks, etc., to stifle competition.). What can a company do?
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. The result?
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Meanwhile, inventory was piling up, the stock was cratering, and the company was running out of cash.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Within a year WAP became the laughing stock of the mobile industry. You either had to do “on deck / on portal&# deals where your app was rolled out through the carriers sh*tty operating platform or you had to go “off deck&# which meant you had no customers. But you need to think in terms of broader distribution.
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