Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

A simple online search should reveal your investors interests as well as the portfolio of companies that he/she has invested in. In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. Make no mistake, you will need to have a business model or a business plan that shows just where you sit in relation to your competitors.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. While the Customer Development class was cutting edge theory in 2004, by 2009 the class was getting stale.

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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.

Entrepreneur 111

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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. Paid search didn’t exist years ago. We have toolbars galore built into IE.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. In it we explicitly state: “The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models….What

Cofounder 28

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. I’ve already started the business modeling. Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). Venture Financings we Discussed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2011

Choose wisely Groups like Vistage and Strategic Coach have proven models for putting together and running mastermind groups and might be a great place for you to start your search. There is something really beautiful about a group that has shared motivations and beliefs, but very diverse businesses and business models.

Small Business 58

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Great story on two Babson MBA’s and their search for the perfect fitting bra. 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. Notice how long the company has been around.

Software 37

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. Though I was told by many in the gift industry that a business cannot exist with just one product, I had faith that I could pull this off. Now, matching business owners with the perfect VA has become my passion. 12- I needed to pay my rent!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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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

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Until 2004, when the U.S. A business model that requires a strong network effect is a long play. The ability to reach large swaths of customers organically, via organic search, is a powerful moat. The increasing competitiveness in organic search and social media has deepened that moat for new entrants.

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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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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

Artificial Inteligence 84

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. 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.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. 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 discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings.

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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. We had the wrong business model. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure.

Software Review 79

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

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. Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model.&# at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model.

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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. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services.

Government 79

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.

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