Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. They kind of invented this business model. Acquia, Inc. Because they are open source.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. Frighteningly Early.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Still, that tilt towards consumer startups was limited to software and services. Investing in consumer hardware was not the business of most VCs (exceptions like the CueCat and Palm proved the rule) until “Internet of Things” became a thing. Second, Apple vertically integrated the user experience, business model and distribution model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I also knew that there was massive opensource software that was available. Then above that is business model power—so, how do you make money? Let’s start off with how and why you helped found All Raise and what its mission is.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Rand Fishkin: I think it’s a company that is striving for rapid growth and seeking to find a scalable, repeatable business model that works. John Jantsch: Isn’t that every business? John Jantsch: Now that you’re starting another business … How long …? I don’t get it. Rand Fishkin: Yeah.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

We also sell to both individual consumers and smaller businesses through our Salary.com website. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. In fact, during the last 3 fiscal years for the company, it did $6.4mm, $10mm, and then $15mm in revenue. million, $0.9

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I used to, because I’ve had a marketing business, I used to run a lot of ads in newsprint. That was a huge revenue. In fact, I think the classified ad business was half of the ads that newspapers got, and that went away one day completely. In fact, we used to run a lot of classified ads for certain things.

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