Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. These elements of the business model– revenue (pricing, pricing strategy), distribution channel, How to Get/Keep/Grow customers, Key Activities, Resources and Costs – are other, critical parts your start up needs to understand and have in place.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion, and in 2005 it bought another generics competitor, Ivax, based in Miami, for about $7.4 Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. Livingston and his team spent a few months “begging” RIM to open its popular messaging service to other channels, but the company had no interest. So, for the last two years, Kik has set about turning Kik into a mobile browser with a messenger at the center for distribution.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. startupcto

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

The way content is consumed and created has changed – mobile, itunes, youtube and the convergence of old media (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines) as vehicles to distribute new media, or simply replaced by new media, has everyone scrambling to become multi-disciplinary online media producers. The Infographic.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

In 2005 Barefoot Cellars was acquired by E&J Gallo Winery, which continues to proudly carry on the off-beat message of “the wine that didn’t take itself too seriously. Your access to the distribution channel can provide your partner NPOs with the publicity they need to grow. And as you grow, they’ll grow… and vice versa!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

The acquiring company can just plug that product into their existing distribution channel to help round out their current product suite and grab more market share (and some might argue that even this is happening less frequently). eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. My answer's really it isn't, that is, since 2005, a lot has changed. And my goal was that when vaccines were available, we will be using pop-ups as the kind of core vaccine distribution infrastructure.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

From: Brett Hurt Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:52 AM To: All Bazaarvoice?—?Internal Email is superior for messages that need to be distributed to many people at the same time (like this one) and are better left archived (such as an important piece of industry news or research). And that is the big point here.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

We started the Barefoot Wine brand in our laundry room in 1986, made it a nationwide bestseller, and successfully sold the brand to E&J Gallo in 2005. And in return, the NPOs received donated product and manpower at events, as well as publicity via Barefoot’s distribution channels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

Pretty much everybody is putting it as a channel that they have to be playing in. What was funny about … Going back, I started my podcast in 2005. So, and I think what happened too, was around 2005, it was kind of the next cool thing after blogging, but then social media came along and kind of tanked it.

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Up and Running

MAY 25, 2016

Census Bureau data, of the nonprofits that started in 2005, only 43 percent of these firms still existed in 2010. Consider limiting the number of channels you use to focus on the ones that give you the most bang for your buck. For nonprofit business owners, finding money—and finding it on a regular basis—is a constant worry.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

And in return, the NPOs received donated product and manpower at events, as well as publicity via Barefoot’s distribution channels. In this way, we gained access to lots of potential customers and gave them a ‘social reason’ to buy Barefoot wine. Multiple problems solved—all without spending money up-front. They’re self-centered.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

Like even like I sort of marketing, like it's just like the channel of podcasting for like lack of better term is just a great group of people. They said that they've got, you know, a hundred employees and they're distributed now and this just, they do a podcast that is purely an internal vehicle communication vehicle.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? free, distributed source code control management system. Roku Channel Store. VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Seed Startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Pivotal Tracker â??

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

<Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.) JibJab has an ad model that relied on exclusive distribution deals with the big portals.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) The second one not until 2005. I have a startup ready to hit the streets, it is NOT tech based but can and will help those in the tech world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Again he looked to the media industry history and pointed out that before Ted Turner founded CNN he had an entertainment channel.

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