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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Startups began to recognize that they weren’t merely a smaller version of a large company. The New Exits.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. If that were the case, most of the Cable and Wireless companies who have been using a similar business model would have gone bankrupt a long time ago and Saleforce would not have 20% FCF margins today.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that.