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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. business models. Entrepreneurial Culture.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. business models. Entrepreneurial Culture.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. If you are in this category, know that the last “secret” of ecommerce is that figuring out how to weaponize shipping – and free returns – is a powerful conversion increasing engine. It is not. (And,

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Starcount.com: Charting The Stars In Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Starcount , he explains as he demonstrates the site via his laptop projected on a large TV screen, is a social media measurement engine that aggregates and measures social media popularity on a global and local scale across any genre. I inquire after their business model. Monetizing Popularity.

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The Collective Forces Against Google’s Dominance

Life Beyond Code

Key Observations About the Revenue Engine for Google. it is no secret that the revenue engine for google is advertising. The Problem With the Key Driver of Revenues: Intent Expression Engine. Social Networks. Quota is a human-powered Q&A engine focused on trivial to deep questions. Think about it.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.