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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., In my mind, there are two main facets to Revenue Development: a) Business model iteration, and, b) Pricing iteration. Very often what a startup’s business model is going to be is unclear. Google’s first business model wasn’t based on advertising.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Microsoft and Apple believed that microprocessors would allow consumers to have their own computers.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

From a pattern matching perspective, it makes sense that we’d prefer founding CEOs, but as I said in an earlier post, pattern matching is not knowledge. The new, professional CEOs were unwilling to let go of the most basic assumptions driving the cost structure of their businesses. The underlying reasons.