Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You can learn more about the network’s design and technical specs here. Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. .

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

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). Survey design. Image source ).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

After a while, people were able to think about automobiles in a new way, which finally paved the way for massive improvements in design and manufacturing. Of course incumbents cannot be expected to jeopardize their revenue streams or investments in CRM platforms with new concepts that wipe out the need for their current solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! Those with strong business models suddenly stand out when the tide goes out. and profits!

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Americas new business model: Sharing. But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Game Hunters. Jinny Gudmundsen. Marc Saltzman. Science Fair.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g., If the customer is a recurring customer, then they are more valuable and a lower quota might be tolerated, although a separate group of account reps are often accountable and paid commissions for the renewal revenue.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Just to make the point that markets are never static, Toyota, a company that sold its first car designed for the US market in 1964, is poised to surpass GM as the leader in the US market. Google is a $25 billion dollar company with most of its revenue from AdWords. Overture was acquired by Yahoo for $1.6 It’s pretty simple.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. Effective email marketing requires good design and optimization. Inbound marketing is multi-channel - it’s designed to reach people wherever they want to interact with you and your business. Email Marketing. Tradeshows.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. Apple wants to take a major share of the revenue. iPhone is not a business model unless you’re Apple. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They can call a meeting with all the stakeholders in the room and then just let them fight it out – this is design by committee and it rarely yields anything beyond mediocrity. This is very common in large companies, and in this model, the product manager is really a project manager and roadmap administrator.

Product 60

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

We Changed Our Mind In 1966, 10 years after Hewlett’s memo, Hewlett Packard’s revenue and headcount had grown ten fold; $200 million and 11,000 employees – all from test and measurement equipment. For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Lessons Learned.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. We now expected that people in a relationships met online. To get started is mostly free.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I don’t have any formal business training and I actually think it’s served me well. I’m studying design.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Identify the key indicators of a well-designed offline experiment. Revenue, downloads, and sign-ups are all examples of lagging indicators. Common examples are Revenue and Conversions. Usability testing is the process of measuring how real users interact with the interfaces and designs of your online or offline properties.

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Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It’s proven to work across industries and business models. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. We assess each page for a certain set of criteria: Relevancy: does the page meet user expectation – both in terms of content and design? A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. A hacker ethic is compatible with an urban setting just as design oriented one is compatible with a suburban one. link] leehower.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

It’s transformed my life in terms of the freedoms I’ve had and what kind of life I’ve been able to live and what kind of business I’ve been able to run. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. Adding Ad Revenue. I own my own house.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

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andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

To become profitable using a freemium business model, this simple equation must hold true: Lifetime value > Cost per acquisition + Cost of service (paying & free) Said in plain english, the lifetime value of your paying customers needs to be greater than the cost it took to acquire them, plus, the cost servicing all users (free or paying).

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Software. -

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. It was becoming a business model destined to fail. While I had previous experience with many various aspects of online marketing such as web design, email marketing, etc., increase not only brand share but also revenue. Shaw, Dallas Web Design Inc ! #15-

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

Reach $125 billion in sales by 2000.” billion in revenue, with a total revenue of $136.3 I designed our first BHAG in 2013: keep all junk we pick up out of landfills. But a BHAG shouldn’t focus solely on revenue or growth. Business model. In 2018, Walmart had $500.3 If BHAGs sound scary, they should!

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Xeligence automatically generates all DM model development and deployment processes. Aerotel Medical Systems. Craze Productions.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It’s designed for small and mid size companies and it all started based on a focus of the employees. Our slogan is, “We heart employees,” and everything that we do is designed around usability for the employees. The question is what metrics do you most rely on to understand your business’s health?

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