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Autonomous Vehicles: Can You Get There From Here? (Part 2)

Agile VC

The way forward includes not only advanced vehicles themselves but also potentially shifts in road infrastructure, laws and regulations, and even business models for “mobility.” So what are the different paths towards commercially available self-driving cars?

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Eric Ries in Times Square For any model to be useful it has to predict what happens in the real world – including the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. “What is the “Business Model” of your startup?&#

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Frameworks for businesses during a crisis.

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Learn the Laws of the Jungle for Business Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. This means building a revenue stream, and tuning your business model to produce margins in the 50% range or above. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

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Do SF Engineers “Get” Art? 3 Fish Gallery Owner Weighs In…

Hunter Walker

Those that have been in the Bay Area for a while may remember the 1999 Bill Viola show at the SFMOMA. ER: We wanted to drive people directly to our website from the beginning, avoiding sites like Etsy to sell our work, and that has proven to be a successful business model for us. I’m thinking Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

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. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 billion in 2010.