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April 3, 2024
They say that timing is one of the most important things in business. But how do you figure out if your timing is right?
This book will guide you.
Learn to identify drivers of good timing, business model impact, and how to apply what’s changing to your own situation. With examples from many companies – successful and failed – this book offers founding teams, product managers, investors, and innovation groups a way to evaluate timing in their own situations.
Learn frameworks…
They say that timing is one of the most important things in business. But how do you figure out if your timing is right?
This book will guide you.
Learn to identify drivers of good timing, business model impact, and how to apply what’s changing to your own situation. With examples from many companies – successful and failed – this book offers founding teams, product managers, investors, and innovation groups a way to evaluate timing in their own situations.
Learn frameworks that help you think through your own situation, ways to present your timing advantage, and patterns that have worked for other companies.
You will learn:
- To run a Why Now Session and build a Timing Map.
- Patterns to consider when evaluating timing.
- How timing shifts your market size.
- How to figure out how early you should build.
- Whether you should really sell shovels in a gold rush.
- How varied business types, including digital photography, rideshare, music streaming, communications, and more thrived or struggled because of timing.
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August 23, 2020
How do businesses sustainably grow?
Whether you're a startup founder trying to improve your odds of success, or a Fortune 100 businessperson looking for ways to optimize an already sustainable business, you will benefit from understanding the ways you acquire customers and generate revenue from them.
This book can help. We demonstrate methods to assess and calculate Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC), Lifetime Value (LTV), and more. Looking at 15 case studies from a wide range of…
How do businesses sustainably grow?
Whether you're a startup founder trying to improve your odds of success, or a Fortune 100 businessperson looking for ways to optimize an already sustainable business, you will benefit from understanding the ways you acquire customers and generate revenue from them.
This book can help. We demonstrate methods to assess and calculate Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC), Lifetime Value (LTV), and more. Looking at 15 case studies from a wide range of business types, we also show how metrics can vary be depending on situation and goals.
You will learn:
- Ways to calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value with additions like customer segments, cohorts, retention, and more (and why they can be imperfect methods).
- How to manage the cost of growth along with potential value generated.
- The difference between growing and scaling a business.
- Why food delivery businesses with good unit economics shut down.
- The difference between taxi and rideshare business models.
- Why it made sense for data storage companies to launch too soon.
- How varied business types, including mobility, consumer packaged goods, organized crime, art, subscriptions, mattress stores, food delivery, and more thrive or struggle because of these metrics.
Written by Paul Orlando, who built and operated startup accelerators in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Rome, and who teaches at the University of Southern California, the book explains various approaches you can use in your own company as well as when you evaluate other businesses. The book is a direct, practical guide for startup founders, operators, and students or business.
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Harvard Business Publishing 2019
What is it like for a founder to be a part of an incubator program? note gives perspectives from three funded startup founders as they look back on their experience in different incubators. The rise of incubator programs has been a feature of the recent surge in tech entrepreneurship. These programs are designed to help early-stage startups be more successful and grow, but how they do that varies wildly. Students will gain context around several different incubator programs and ways that they…
What is it like for a founder to be a part of an incubator program? note gives perspectives from three funded startup founders as they look back on their experience in different incubators. The rise of incubator programs has been a feature of the recent surge in tech entrepreneurship. These programs are designed to help early-stage startups be more successful and grow, but how they do that varies wildly. Students will gain context around several different incubator programs and ways that they could choose among options.
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Harvard Business Publishing 2018
The rise of incubator programs has been a feature of the recent surge in tech entrepreneurship. These programs are designed to help early-stage startups be more successful and grow, but how they do that varies wildly. This note looks at the history of the industry, how they impact their entrepreneurial ecosystem, key incubator players in different sectors, and where the industry may be headed.
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Don't identify with what you see in the mainstream startup world? Working on a startup outside of a tech hub or in an unfashionable industry? This book is for you.
This book is inspired by my experience co-founding and operating a startup accelerator and from working with startups around the world. Startup Sacrilege includes lessons learned and solutions, especially for startups and community organizers outside of established tech hubs. A non-mainstream view that challenges startup world…
Don't identify with what you see in the mainstream startup world? Working on a startup outside of a tech hub or in an unfashionable industry? This book is for you.
This book is inspired by my experience co-founding and operating a startup accelerator and from working with startups around the world. Startup Sacrilege includes lessons learned and solutions, especially for startups and community organizers outside of established tech hubs. A non-mainstream view that challenges startup world assumptions and makes suggestions for what to do instead. PDF now available free: startupsunplugged.com/book
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Harvard Business Publishing
How does AARP, the largest membership non-profit in the world renew itself in the face of changing generational expectations? How can large organizations work with emerging startups in a mutually beneficial manner? Students will gain insight into how large organizations try to innovate, the challenges large organizations face when trying to innovate, different innovation models, and the creation of in-house startup incubator programs. Success is not only measured in financial terms, especially…
How does AARP, the largest membership non-profit in the world renew itself in the face of changing generational expectations? How can large organizations work with emerging startups in a mutually beneficial manner? Students will gain insight into how large organizations try to innovate, the challenges large organizations face when trying to innovate, different innovation models, and the creation of in-house startup incubator programs. Success is not only measured in financial terms, especially for a non-profit that focuses on aging.
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Projects
May 2012 - May 2012
Poach talent from dying companies.
Won 2nd place at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2012 NYC.
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See project Why Now: How Good Timing Makes Great Products
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https://www.amazon.com/Why-Now-Timing-Makes-Products/dp/B0CYXSNMT3/
They say that timing is one of the most important things in business. But how do you figure out if your timing is right?
This book will guide you.
Learn to identify drivers of good timing, business model impact, and how to apply what’s changing to your own situation. With examples from many companies – successful and failed – this book offers founding teams, product managers, investors, and innovation…
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Now-Timing-Makes-Products/dp/B0CYXSNMT3/
They say that timing is one of the most important things in business. But how do you figure out if your timing is right?
This book will guide you.
Learn to identify drivers of good timing, business model impact, and how to apply what’s changing to your own situation. With examples from many companies – successful and failed – this book offers founding teams, product managers, investors, and innovation groups a way to evaluate timing in their own situations.
Learn frameworks that help you think through your own situation, ways to present your timing advantage, and patterns that have worked for other companies.
You will learn:
To run a Why Now Session and build a Timing Map.
Patterns to consider when evaluating timing.
How timing shifts your market size.
How to figure out how early you should build.
Whether you should really sell shovels in a gold rush.
How varied business types, including digital photography, rideshare, music streaming, communications, and more thrived or struggled because of timing.
Languages
Chinese
Full professional proficiency
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LinkedIn User
“Paul uses his immense experience as founder and operator of multiple best-in-class startup accelerators around the world to drive revenue growth and deliver results quickly. He asks the difficult questions and pulls from a deep bag of experiences with a solution-oriented approach for each situation differently, all while keeping people motivated to own their decisions. He cares deeply about his relationships and so is a pleasure to work with and his ability to analyze quickly comes through in his work product and everything he does. I highly recommend him for startups and corporates that are looking to grow in new ways.”
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