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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester. .

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… Business. Loading… Tech. more in Small Business. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model. #5 at 9:42 am I agree with the point by Reader X that the Free/Premium model is a marketing strategy. Business software is different and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as B2C. 5 Ben K on 08.18.10 23 m3mnoch on 08.18.10