Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? In 2003 U.C. That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Cyndi Thomason , president and founder of bookskeep, has channeled her energetic nature and passion for her work into the perfect business model for assisting small businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. Cyndi and Brent discuss driving profit in social media. Our Guests.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Kyle Ems, founder of SeniorCareBox, a web-based company that helps customers send care packages to seniors, says there is no shortage of help available to new entrepreneurs. If you believe in your business model and it is something the world needs, starting a business is an effective way to ensure your vision is achieved,” he says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Tell us about your business. incentaHEALTH was formed in 2003 around the idea of rewarding people for healthy behaviors. All of this is delivered electronically each day in the form of a daily meal plan from a dietitian and a custom workout routine from a Certified Personal Trainer. It’s maddening for the consumer to navigate.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I was totally product focused for the last year and now it’s live, so I need to start thinking about finding some customers. ” So instead finding out who and where those potential customers are , which is hard, he just made a product, which is easy (for him). So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 14, 2021

When it comes to business growth, you must keep finding better ways to improve your business model. It can benefit you in a number of ways, and one of the main reasons is to increase your clientele, which is the ultimate goal of every significant business. Earn More Customers. Fewer Errors and More Productivity.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. And as part of that we’ve developed a set of tools that could be used to search for business models.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. It seeks to solve customer problems in a better and more modern way and help such companies edge over the competition. And as we all know, wowing the customer over and over is no easy task.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I’ve built a loyal customer base and by selling directly through image consultants, stylists, at shows and on my website I am able to give my clients top quality at almost wholesale affordable prices. (I Our business has started little bit over a month ago, but we have already had more success that we have expected.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When I started in the financial services industry in 2003, getting to meetings when I was on the road was pretty straightforward—I took a cab. Many merchants and businesses have moved away from the traditional pay-for-product pricing models and begun to implement subscription-based pricing. The subscription economy explained.

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We did have some large initial customers but quickly realized that we were far from capital efficient in a market crash and that we would have to refocus and restart. We bought that company in 2003 and invested some more capital. 9 months later we had rebuilt the architecture, relaunched, and landed a couple more great customers.

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We did have some large initial customers but quickly realized that we were far from capital efficient in a market crash and that we would have to refocus and restart. We bought that company in 2003 and invested some more capital. 9 months later we had rebuilt the architecture, relaunched, and landed a couple more great customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2011

Sometimes it can feel like you feed the beast, you feed the customers, you feed the staff, but who feeds you? There is something really beautiful about a group that has shared motivations and beliefs, but very diverse businesses and business models. As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The Customer Service Survey. Gourmet Customer Service. Sunday - September 28, 2003 at 03:37 AM in. To all those entrepreneurs with innovative, unique business ideas who want to capitalize on them before someone else does, I have one piece of advice: Get over it. Customer lists and prospect lists. Categories.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. The general rule is one business model drives the business.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 4, 2004

Adam Bosworth has an interesting post on the evolution of software and why software delivered as a service will be the business model of the future. From an evolutionary perspective, the ASP business model is quite interesting to examine. Software delivered as a service enables that and packaged software does not.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

From the customer’s point of view, they would rather wait a little longer and have a better platform-specific solution, than simultaneously ship a generic product on all platforms. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

And that we were able to combine our respective skill-sets to create a successful business. In founding our business- the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, a historic Coal Heritage Trail inn in Landgraff, West Virginia- in 2003, at the ages of 57 and 44, we reinvented ourselves- and not for the first time! My husband is US Army Ret.,

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). Startups in the city of SF are not exactly a new phenomena… a bunch of startups have been founded/built in SF in the last five years or so.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses. 14 – Concept Behind the Business Model. 22 – Know What the Business Was.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Last year I spent eight months traveling around the world, and throughout that entire time I was running my business. I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. I don’t actually have any employees.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. also, like i said, pre-launch, the business guy doesn’t provide much value. How to get there.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. AtlasCT – (Atlas Cartographic Technologies LTD) offers a wide range of products for LBS applications and services, with the ability to provide a complete solution, adjusted to the customer needs, for all types of platforms, with remote or standalone.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Mobile analytics – measuring the impact of mobile and increasing customer engagement (Check out G-Stat). This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Craze Productions.

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