Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
These bubble startups were actually guessing at their business model and did premature and aggressive hype and early company launches and had extremely high burn rates – all predicated on an IPO to raise more cash. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. IPOs dried up.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 19, 2011
Business model: o They bought a lot of ad inventory (banner ads/advertising) driving people to signup forms, converting (fill out form) and sold leads, o Initial strategy was first comparison shopping and then monitoring and upselling on more savings. He typed lowermybills.com was not registered and available so he bought it.
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YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 5, 2013
Loyalty experts will swear this is not true, and will use complex models to demonstrate ROI of their systems. My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. All merchants have to fund are the discounts or whatever other benefits they want to give. A new paradigm.
Start Up Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2014
The online version of a newspaper can no longer pretend X number of readers saw the advertisement, no less than they can pretend that Y number of people clicked on it. When critical mass is lost, the business model itself starts to crumble. It was built in 2004 at a cost of $220 million.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
This lasted from about 2001-2004. I’ve already started the business modeling. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.
BeyondVC
JUNE 2, 2004
Rather than go into the software (which I really like btw, combination RSS reader, bookmark manager, and simple collaboration tool), I wanted to share some of our thoughts about consumer-based web businesses circa 2004. We are not throwing money away on stupid advertising campaigns. We have toolbars galore built into IE.
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