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How To Pivot Successfully

YoungUpstarts

You need to be able to read the signs from the business and the industry and acknowledge a declining revenue model. Once you’ve accepted that your offering will not accomplish your long-term plan, be open to re-imagining your assets and shifting to a new industry, one that can open up new revenue streams for your new company.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

The company loses customers, then revenues and profits decline and it eventually gets acquired or goes out of business. Customer and Agile Development (and the Lean Startup ) may be the emerging methodologies large companies need to build innovative new products. The Quest for Resilience, Gary Hamel / Liisa Valikangas : Sept 2003. -

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

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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Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

Newzoo estimates the global games market revenue at approximately $150 Billion in 2019, across all platforms, devices etc. According to Statista, the Music industry generated around $56 Billion in revenue in 2019, and movies generated record of $42.5 Billion in revenues in 2019. Billion in revenues in 2019.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Ann Miura-Ko on being a founder, representation, and the future.

Startup Lessons Learned

Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. How do you not only make money in terms of revenue and revenue growth, but ultimately how do you develop profits and a profit center?

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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. I have no personal knowledge of computers nor does anyone in our organization have any appreciable knowledge.

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Navigating the Challenges of Scaling

Duct Tape Marketing

Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must have platform for intelligent marketing automation. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Jason Vandeboom. He is the founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign.

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