crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD. “Investing early & often in customer success is essential to keeping a fast-growing SaaS business’s momentum.” crowdspring.co/19IC5KK.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Lee, quite simply, has forgotten WAY more about the entertainment business than most of will ever know (see his biography below). And he has graciously agreed to give us the answers to the above questions, which winning business models to run with, which losers to run from, and much, much more!

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Not that there’s anything wrong with many new businesses per say – here are some good results of such a rush. many more people are learning software development. innovation is heavily suffering right now – almost anything is a business model. lots of jobs being created, even if short term.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. I look forward to the next phase of our business. Page 3: Competition. Page 5: Financials. Aren’t they tired of this ritual?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Our model combined fair pricing and advocacy and direct development projects in each of the communities we bought from that would be managed by the communities themselves, thereby creating managerial capacity among the farmers and self-respect. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life. It's a big tent.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. Deer are not so big that they can make huge demands on you for your development resources or customer support. Who else?).

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999. After developing his idea, Mycoskie sold his online driver education company and financed the shoe company himself. Whole Foods Market.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Although I had been developing softwares since 1999, it was the first time I could think of an idea, write the application, publish it online and virally reach thousands of people! Everything on Facebook is calling the attention of the users and as a developer you have to continuously innovate if you want to be the one they go to.

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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. Scaling Akamai – Part 1: A Little Fat. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It required content sites to develop totally new content. Everybody and their mothers are coming into my offices proclaiming that their developing the latest iPhone App. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. Or would it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) No business model, either.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The mobile world brings enormous business opportunities and changes to business models that were unthinkable when VCs made investments ten years ago that produced the last decade of results. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Those that have been in the Bay Area for a while may remember the 1999 Bill Viola show at the SFMOMA. I developed graphic arts software for years prior to my printmaking career, so going back to the fundamentals of printing is something that has motivated me from the start.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Within a few months, they raised $30,000 (which was a lot of money for them) and were invited to an incubator for new business owners, where they learned how to run a company. Airbnb has changed the world, created a new business model for many people, and has drastically impacted how people look at properties and the space that they own.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. But Iridium’s business model assumptions were fixed like it was still 1990. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. It is death in a rapidly changing business.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 19, 2005

So speed is more important than ever: You have to develop your business as quickly and nimbly as possible to build your product and then perfect it after it’s out so you quickly establish your value. Fred Wilson and a new VC blogger, Peter Rip , have written some thoughtful posts about a bubble mentality developing.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 10, 2010

I went to the RWW Mobile Summit last Friday where in the true unconference style the attendees defined the agenda and developed the conference content at the day transpired. Not surprisingly the video guys were focused on this issue as it directly impacts them on the iPhone, where according to Justin.tv

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

While the term was new, many of the ideas aligned with “ permission marketing ,” which Seth Godin brought into marketers’ consciousness in 1999 and contrasted with “interruption marketing.” While it took time to refine the language, Drift formed the kernel of the idea based on experiences developing their product.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] A moat-building project can be far simpler while still working toward the same goal: a sustainable, decisive business advantage. Developing a moat isn’t formulaic. But companies with moats share common characteristics.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! My parents were also small business owners. I began by connecting talented employees with jobs but soon had to close the business due to a lack of a solid business model.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This code convergence effort was supposed to save Microsoft substantial development time, and also - they tried to convince themselves - improve the offering since Word would have the same features on every platform. But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

One of my pharmacy contacts was looking at this business model in 1999, and asked for my input,” Thorkelson said. “It Because there’s more to life as an entrepreneur than you can get by focusing on one arena, Thorkelson expanded his business interests into real estate. Kris Thorkelson: Businesses are like children.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Lee, quite simply, has forgotten WAY more about the entertainment business than most of us will ever know (see his biography below). And he has graciously agreed to share the answers to the above questions, which winning business models to run with, which losers to run from, and much, much more!

Los Angeles 76

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review IP 76

Hearpreneur

MARCH 28, 2018

In 1990, Mr. Moran, his wife and his youngest daughter Barb founded Moran Industries and expanded the business model to include franchised repair facilities with the acquisition of Mr. Transmission. Barb has led the company through a changing industry and has served as the President and CEO since 1999.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

From what I’ve noticed, this is for 2 main reasons: The internal conversation about design aesthetic devolves into one about features, rather than developing a distinct visual identity. It’s too bad, because Polyvore actually has a pretty unique business model. Navigation. Fufillment. Presentation. Not really.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. You want this to be passive, so you need to find ways to develop either content or have people use your website without you personally investing the time.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Buyout companies  — In a low interest rate and the slow-growth environments of recent years, companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google focus on acquisitions instead of focusing on capital expenditures and development of internal investment projects. Imagine that.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. Packaged food and beverages were marketed as natural and safe, filled with secret ingredients (sometimes dangerous) were developed by the manufacturers, so they could sell more and keep it shelf stable for longer. But when the web 2.0

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The G/SCORE measures the key milestones a company has achieved in business building along seven factors: overall concept, market opportunity, competitive risk, product development, business development, team, and business model. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Musk kick-started his rise to entrepreneurial fame when he sold his digital media company, Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million back in 1999. Some people may not know this, but Amazon actually started as a bookstore, operating on a business model similar to dropshipping. He was only 27 at this point! billion dollars.

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