ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

After CB Insights’ investigation yielded such an alarming figure of failure, the company decided to compile more than 100 post mortem letters from different startup founders to discover the reason for the failures. Having a good product but a wrong business model. Why do so many companies fail? Losing focus.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Finance United States 77

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. I’ve already started the business modeling. Co-Founders Michael Clark (ex-Photobucket), Geoffrey Arone (ex-DanceJam).

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San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009. Questionable business model. Highly profitable. . Highly profitable.

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. With NVIDIA’s Israel-1 AI supercomputer, a broad range of innovative companies in Israel will create AI that can transform the productivity and business models of enterprises around the world.”

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital 78

Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

To be clear, the founders, early investors and many employees ended the day very rich indeed. Google IPO 2004 – 5 years after it was founded. Legal Issues & Regulation: On top of all its general business challenges, Uber is fighting dozens of legal cases. It closed its first day of trade down 8% at a price of $41.60.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 2, 2018

Amazon’s description of Do the KIND Thing: For the socially conscious, the intellectually curious, or the creative soul comes an inspiring, New York Times bestselling handbook for success in business, life, and the all-important task of building a more compassionate world—by the visionary founder and CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks.

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New York Business Model Entrepreneur Founder 28

Up and Running

MARCH 2, 2015

A street view in Bali, Indonesia, where the founders of Indosole were inspired to start their social enterprise. For the love of business. The idea for the company came about when two surfing Californians took a trip to Bali, Indonesia, in 2004. You must be practical about your business model in a for-profit organisation.

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Indonesia Cofounder Forecast Government 60

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

When speaking with founders and private growth investors, we hear countless references to “multiples paid” on current or near-term revenue; both obsess over this because a higher multiple translates to a higher valuation. When Salesforce went public in 2004 as a new kind of CRM provider, its S-1 indicated the CRM applications market was $7B.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

(PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What's the business model? Reader beware.). Open Government.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Bra guy” is a relatively new gig for Ohly, dating back to about 2004, when his MBA classmate and now Zyrra co-founder Christi Andersen mentioned that there was a pervasive problem with bra fit. So Ohly, who says he was overwhelmed by the number of women sharing Andersen’s gripes, set out in the bra business.

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Software Angel Financing Cofounder Finance 37

Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. Our business is based on content marketing and digital media, which has allowed for our success to flourish. In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. Thanks to Matthew Myre, Berri Properties !

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Entrepreneur LLC Technical Review Finder 127

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. So there is, is a way to adapt your business model and do this without time sheets. Marketing Podcast with Marcel Petitpas.

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Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 77

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

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. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work. We are also seeing corporations and commercial real estate companies enter the coworking arena, aware that it could be a threat to their traditional business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

And I’m sure everyone remembers the video that put them on the map – the one I first saw – which was the Bush/Kerry video This Land is Your Land (“you have more waffles than a house of pancakes), which was part of the 2004 elections and both candidates were asked about while they were campaigning.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I was manifesting this huge monolithic application in my head that would revolutionize the job search, I had even written some code at this point, and didn’t have any idea if actual businesses were willing to pay a dime for it. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model.&#

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Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. More in Small Business. Comcast Corp.,

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. ‘ Oh, but it doesn’t suit our business model’ . But when the web 2.0 Bust our own myths. TV has a 7 second delay.

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Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

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? And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. We were putting the plan before the planning.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013. Business model. Josh Cohen is the CEO and founder of Junkluggers. Remember that a BHAG shouldn’t be unrealistic, but it shouldn’t be easy either. It’s a bigger, scarier, more audacious goal than you’ve ever chased. Company goals. Unique offerings.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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Darfur Sudan Cofounder United Kingdom 122