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9 Popular Startup Business Model Variations For Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup is in the Business-to-Business (B2B) world, you need to realize that the subscription model has evolved considerably since SalesForce.com introduced Software as a Service (SaaS) way back in 1999.

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9 Subscription Model Variations To JumpStart Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup is in the Business-to-Business (B2B) world, you need to realize that the subscription model has evolved considerably since SalesForce.com introduced Software as a Service (SaaS) way back in 1999.

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Market Like Its 1999 In 2015 – 9 Marketing Strategies That Worked Back Then & Still Work Now

YoungUpstarts

When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. Yes, we know there was email marketing in 1999, but it was in its infancy. Print catalogs worked in 1999, and they still work today. In 1999, business buyers had stacks of corporate brochures and folders on hand.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. We were hot.

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Book: The Startup Playbook

Feld Thoughts

Will and I made our first angel investment together in 1994 – in Raj’s first company NetGenesis (which went public in 1999). Raj and I have done seven companies together, including his most recent company JumpCloud which is one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies in our portfolio (and in Colorado.).

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! I still love B2B application. Why should you care?

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Alibaba S-1: Sizing Up A Giant

Agile VC

Alibaba’s Genesis Alibaba was founded in 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 other colleagues, and like most startups they began as a small group working out of Ma’s apartment in Hangzhou. com – this is the B2B marketplace for connecting wholesale buyers worldwide with Chinese manufacturers and distributors for a range of goods.

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