K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., In the end the revenue simply wasn’t enough to make a sustainable business and so we had to switch gears once more (in today’s parlance that would be a “Pivot”). Over the course of that relationship that lasted several years, we did over $1M in revenue just from HP.

Revenue 72

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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. As a result, the full revenue for each deal was recognized in that quarter as soon as the software was shipped. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8

Revenue 54

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine.

Cofounder 28

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An There is more to setting up a company than incorporating it, ofcourse: insurance, business license, unemployment compensation, various things with the IRS.

Startup 105

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

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. They were proficient at running the current business, but lacked both the courage and the moral authority to jeopardize the old business model by embracing the new technology.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Revenue, downloads, and sign-ups are all examples of lagging indicators. Before moving on to the next section, list down a few lagging indicators for your business. Common examples are Revenue and Conversions. Some business models use experimentation to great effect already. A lagging indicator is an outcome.

Marketing 133

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