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. Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 15 minutes. Pricing information.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s a great blog to visit, especially if you need help with your subscription business. Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. Follow Jason on Twitter @ASmartBear. Feld Thoughts.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. However, I will then argue that while these methods are necessary to managing new ventures inside a company, they are insufficient.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ).

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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. Backed by a B.A. 7 at Collective Bias (social media agency). Backed by a B.A.

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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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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

I went to the University of Colorado at Boulder, looking for a major that combined business and technology. I ended up creating my own hybrid degree by doing a triple major in Information Systems, Organization Management and Human Resource Management. Tell us about your business.

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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.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Guest post by Kevin Baxpehler, Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. New entrants with seemingly endless amounts of cash are creating strong competitive pressures (think Amazon, Netflix, Apple) forcing incumbents to change their business models (e.g. Yes, the title is “click-bait” but there is some truth to it, bear with me.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing.

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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. Then above that is business model power—so, how do you make money? As people work much more remotely and in distributed teams, there's this very unsolved problem around knowledge management. I've been in venture now twice.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2011

Marketing guru Amish Shah was no stranger to these fumbles when he began his marketing and consulting empire back in 2003. If you apply these to your business model as Shah did, then there’s no telling what you can accomplish.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. He has remained true to his company’s mission and, although he may have lost profits in the process, his innovative business model has certainly paid off big. Believe it or not, but the uber successful retailer, J. Under Drexler’s leadership, J.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. Cvidya – cVidya is a product company specializing in Revenue Assurance, Data Integrity and Dealer management solutions. in some cases as a hosted / managed service from broadband a datacenter.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders).

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. I left the company and since then PeerTV went public on AIM in London and managed to raise additional money. what’s BizMe2′s business model?). VC Cafe: You have a pretty long track record in startups.

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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. General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I help people manage their wealth and work with their advisors (estate, insurance, legal, wealth). And that we were able to combine our respective skill-sets to create a successful business. Owning your own business allows you to do that! Owning a business is truly a creative endeavor- but it is NOT easy!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Flash Networks.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Maybe you can be the project manager and team up with someone else who is a prgrammer. also, like i said, pre-launch, the business guy doesn’t provide much value. after launch, however, having a good business guy becomes very important. Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I went to the University of Queensland and studied for a business management degree. Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. I own my own house.

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