A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. .” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Support.com — On 2.5m

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The price offered was high for this type of business. Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Questionable business model. . - Modest profitability. - No introduction is required here. The current market cap is only $1.8

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

But many years later, I began to appreciate that one of our core flaws was our business model. million in one year, the year we went public at a billion dollar valuation (ok, it was 1996; everyone went public in 1996 with a billion dollar valuation), and then $61 million the following year. million to $22.5

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. The transition would have been far easier if these executives running the companies had invented the old models.

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2016

See Also: How to Write a Business Plan in Under an Hour. The first big hurdle for the artist business plan is what they call the business model, or, if you don’t like the trendy buzzword, how you make money. ” Don’t completely discount the related businesses. Here are some suggestions. There are galleries.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Despite its success and growth as a partnership, Party Pieces has maintained its family business model and Carole continues to be involved in the sourcing and developing of new party products. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The business model.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. We officially launched in early 1996.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    It raised an additional $30mm of venture capital after we invested and subsequently was long on buzz but short on customer adoption. 

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Hans Hvide at the University of Aberdeen Business School just published a paper, "The Horse or the Jockey? Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” As we morphed our business model at Expertcity, we needed a name for the technology we had begun to license to large enterprises.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

The Internet business changed, completely, in 1996 when the AT&T WorldNet Service began offering"all-you-eat" (u nlimited access) pricing for Internet access. AOL had to flip its business model outside of access fees into advertising, commerce other services. The platform succeeded. Until it didnt. Others failed.

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. Wow-what a past couple of days! First I would like to say congratulations to David Moore, CEO of 24/7 RealMedia, on the company’s pending sale to WPP Group for $649mm. appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Because the following list of companies, which were all venture-backed, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996: Adobe, Applied Materials, BMC Softare, Computer Associates, Dell, Electronic Arts, Fiserv, Intel, Paychex, Symantec, Intuit, NetApp, Oracle, Western Digital, Xilinx, and Yahoo!

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. You have to focus on for the nuts and bolts, what is the business model, how are we going to make money. I think that if you’re undercapitalized and under resourced, you have to focus on revenue, revenue, revenue.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Some business models use experimentation to great effect already. Many tests can be done with the data that already exists in the business today. Measuring whether using a dimmer, but more cost effective light-bulb has an impact on in-store foot traffic. QSR’s (Quick Service restaurants) such as Subway are prolific testers.

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