Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Ps: my limited perspective comes with self recognition of a lack of hands on experience always enjoy it when I stop in to read here Steve Reply Aamir , on July 2, 2009 at 10:18 am Said: Awesome post Steve… but isn’t drawing the business model for a gaming company going to be easy? Make game, market, sell, profit?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

In the first 50 years of commerce in the then-new United States, most businesses were general merchants , buying and selling all types of products as exporters, wholesaler, importers, etc. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. See here for background on horizons.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Rob Adams, the director of MootCorp, is doing an amazing job at providing value to all participants, whether it’s feedback on their business model or making the right introductions. Jon Reply Latest business plans news - That’s version ? Fi | Business Plans for Dummies , on July 3, 2009 at 6:29 pm Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. Eric, As you touch on, the lean venture has been the basic model employed by entrepreneurs throughout history until the past 12 years or so when venturing became institutionalized. Good stuff.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 See Five Things Meme as an example. event I did last fall.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

The Social Enterprise Alliance offers this definition: “In its early days, the social enterprise movement was identified mainly with nonprofits that used business models and earned income strategies to pursue their mission. state to adopt this structure in 2010. In terms of legal structure, social enterprises have many options.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet. The two founders invested $40k in the business, and plan to license it rather than manufacture it because manufacturing seems too hard. The entrepreneur launched Zomm in late 2010 and did $700k in sales that year. in 2012 sales and $2M in income.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply Mike Byrnes , on April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am said: Steve: I just found your site and blog from a link off Venture Hacks “Two great talks from SLLConf&# I fell like I’ve just found the mother lode! I hewar via thew grapevine that you’re thinking about a ‘Business Model Competition’ Interesting.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Getting there requires patience, internal buy-in, and supporting content. Instead, it is opinionated, often contrarian content that “has to pack a very real punch.”.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

By 2010, Vuzit had been hired by two large companies – a bank and an aerospace firm — to “help brainstorm and implement new technologies.” By 2009, it had run out of cash. Its fortunes turned around, however, after a consulting firm suggested that it market itself to large companies that were seeking help in innovating new products.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. We discussed guerilla p.r.,

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. 14 Comments • Nov 15, 2010 +1 for use of Platonic.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. According to the fund chairman, Ronnie Osumba, the start-up market is yet to be explored.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

March 23, 2010 2:05 PM Anonymoussaid. Not all CEO's have business sense. For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. demand creation strategy).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Sean Ellis coined the term “growth hacking” way back in 2010. If you don’t have a validated product or business model yet, stop here. There are a lot of different ways to approach this, depending on your business model and your goals. Archive and distribute the learnings. before continuing.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. The IPO offering document became the playbook for startups.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? © 2010 Derek Sivers comments Pam Mark Hall (2010-06-19) # Derek, Yes,Yes,Yes!

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In my mind, there are two main facets to Revenue Development: a) Business model iteration, and, b) Pricing iteration. Very often what a startup’s business model is going to be is unclear. However, to me the sign that a founding team has at least thought about a revenue model is an important indicator.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ).

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. These new business models focused heavily on how buying behavior has changed because of the power of the web.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

Sophomores Erik Brust, Connor Wray, Andrew Sather, and Kilian Wald (pictured) bonded as first-year students through their self-formed investment club, and in 2010 they decided to start a business that would combine an alternative dessert with locally available ingredients.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I responded to their RFP by proposing that Ardent build the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center a distributed supercomputing environment with hundreds of Ardent personal supercomputers rather than a monolithic Cray supercomputer. And where are we today…distributed computing. Love it… Great closure.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The hottest buzzword for startups in 2010 is “pivot.” The pivot can be applied to any element of the business model, without changing the underlying vision. They keep one foot in the past and place one foot in a new possible future. Product versus services pivot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Bring your questions.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. Faith-based Entrepreneurship At first, entrepreneurship is a Faith-based initiative. There is no certainty about a startup on day-one.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. 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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Business model: Premium brands offer select goods (often excess inventory) for sale at 40%-70% discounts; consumers need to be invited by existing member or via application to participate in private sales; HauteLook collects percentage of gross sale. Total raised: $16.0mm.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The emergence of mobile platforms has broadened the array of internet-enabled businesses somewhat, and overall it obviously marks a massive shift in computing platforms. But at its base level, ubiquitous computing or “mobile” hasn’t actually changed that much from the desktop web when it comes to fundamental business models.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Warby Parker is an online store for prescription sunglasses and eyeglasses that since their founding in 2010 has taken the Lenscrafter “eye doctor in a mall” concept and fully “Internet-ized” it. Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e For profitable reselling, Grainger.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. Do you know how they create demand?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization purposes? Please use the comments below to give your thoughts and analyses on why you think Twitter is not using the affiliate business model to monetize its immense traffic. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

August 2010 Two years ago I wrote about what I called " a huge, unexploitedopportunity in startup funding :" the growing disconnect betweenVCs, whose current business model requires them to invest largeamounts, and a large class of startups that need less than theyused to. Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

One of the most overused startup words of 2010 was Pivot, but pivoting away from a bad product, a bad hire, a bad decision, etc quickly enough was cited as a reason for failure often. Letting inertia and stubbornness limit your growth and ability to change your business model was cited as cause for failure almost 1/5 of the time. #8

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Innovation – Business Model? At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. Others you need to know when you execute the plan. Where do the ideas come from? Technology?

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