Remove B2C Remove Business Model Remove Marketing Remove Silicon Valley
article thumbnail

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. It sounds interesting.

article thumbnail

The Courage to Monetize

Austin Startup

Even with his excellent health at age 85, has he aged out of relevance to the mass market and therefore high value ad serving? What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. He has over 1.2M

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

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?”

article thumbnail

Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Personally, I think it’s a lazy question, but I think the founders would appreciate hearing your thoughts about what it takes for a founder or a founding team to say, “I’m going to go after a large, dominant business.”. Is it market understanding, is it experience, is it a particular set of personality traits?

article thumbnail

Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Personally, I think it’s a lazy question, but I think the founders would appreciate hearing your thoughts about what it takes for a founder or a founding team to say, “I’m going to go after a large, dominant business.”. Is it market understanding, is it experience, is it a particular set of personality traits?

article thumbnail

6 Steps To Choosing A Pricing Model For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Olga Mykhoparkina, Chief Marketing Officer at Chanty. If you are in the very beginning of a journey to your first million or just considering various business ideas, this is the crucial question you’d have to answer one day. If you choose this pricing model you should keep in mind that it is the one that is hard to scale.

Startup 173
article thumbnail

Software Eating Industries

Mucker Lab

Some had once argued that software is not a competitive advantage – that all the old dogs will learn new tricks and there will be little left for valley entrepreneurs and VC’s to pick over. Ironically, they are most likely not the Ivy League or Stanford grads that Silicon Valley VC’s love to back.

Software 107