Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The commitment to their nurses and clients has contributed to a 30% annual growth rate allowing them to gross revenue of $56,543,000 in 2017. AMN Healthcare is a Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Company and is listed as one of the 2018 Largest US Staffing Firms with revenue over $100 Million by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? If you are pursuing an advertising business model, then in the early days you will almost certainly have to outsource, despite the fact that this could be a core long term advantage. He basically outsources everything.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Can it scale?”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue. Board Control.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

We Changed Our Mind In 1966, 10 years after Hewlett’s memo, Hewlett Packard’s revenue and headcount had grown ten fold; $200 million and 11,000 employees – all from test and measurement equipment. It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars. Agilent is a $5.8

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Innovation – Business Model? Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? » 2 Responses Knowtu » links for 2009-06-09 , on June 9, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said: [.] Others you need to know when you execute the plan. Where do the ideas come from?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. No business model, either. And Google?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Realizing it had taken a wrong turn, SlideShare rethought its approach to premium accounts and ultimately performed what we’d call a value capture pivot , one where the company changes the way it collects revenue from customers. That is the essence of proving the business in micro-scale. Expo SF (May.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. We’re not going to book any revenue for the next 12 months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# The amount of traditional business modeling will vary.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. By 2009, I was fed up. Regarding revenue, we made a big bet on “purchase intent.” We looked at social sites—like Facebook and Twitter—with huge user bases, but comparably small revenue. Once we built out a sales team, revenue also started to grow nicely.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. The Proof Is In The Revenue. On September 27, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (H.R. 17, 2009 and before Jan. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Refactoring yourself out of business Let me start out by saying I am a big fan of refactoring , the ongoing process of changing code so that it performs the same behaviors but has more elegant structure. January 29, 2009 12:08 AM Mahesh said. Great post, Eric.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) Meanwhile every other department in the company would be making their plan – meaning the company was burning cash without bringing in revenue.

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