Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. 9-0 in IPOs and 3-1 in big M&A in favor of Boston? But then why have consumer plays like Boston-based Kayak, TripAdvisor and Zipcar done so well?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. While companies execute business models, startups search for a business model. (Or Consumer Internet Driving Innovation.

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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.) Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. The founders.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Even students who aren’t in Entrepreneurship Hall can join other innovators at Rochester, in the Center for Student Innovation lab where they can tinker with new ideas, creating physical models and getting advice for their next steps from advisors and even other student participants. Boston University Business Incubation.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Silicon Valley, Boston). In exchange, the startups provide companies with their disruptive ideas, technologies and business models. Therefore, the profile of the initial team to staff an Innovation Outpost should be a technology-savvy business development group. Where in the company will this new solution fit?

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Is “Data” a Business Model? Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. So is “data” now a new business model, as some suggest? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. March 30, 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

Management consulting firms, such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain, exist to solve business problems. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen recently observed, “Management consulting’s fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years.

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Non-Compete Vesting Boston Agile 113

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model. Learn how to put together a business model , not a business plan. Class Logistics. As described in the previous post , this is a hands-on class.

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

JDCC stands for “Jaw-Dropping customer value through a Competition-Crushing business model.”. Customers who experience this kind of product can’t help but talk to other people about it, whether it’s friends & family in the consumer segment -or- other business partners & peers in the B2B space. Go (re)read that post.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models. What’s striking to me is the polar opposite business models Apple and Amazon have established to crack the same nut. Apple has a marginally profitable digital content business which drives a highly profitable hardware business. October 3, 2011.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. She serves on the board for Big Sisters of Greater Boston, and on the board of advisors for Chewy and Dia&Co. Mike Volpe, CMO at Cybereason. Back to Top).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. He is also planning to launch in Boston and Chicago by December. The Free Rider Problem.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. But then again, this is what skeptics have been predicting for 10+ years. What I was purporting was just “the greater fool theory”.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 21, 2017

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. 8:05 Business Model Canvas – Alexander Osterwalder. It’s worth a listen.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The corollary for an enterprise is: A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model. Strategy Maps.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Note that Clearbanc has a somewhat different business model than the RBI VCs I list here.). In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. It was just because we looked at data.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one. Amazon PostRank

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. But then again, this is what skeptics have been predicting for 10+ years. What I was purporting was just “the greater fool theory”.

IRR 156

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.).

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kayak is great Boston-area success story. Solving the "marketplace" business model - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 10, 2010 A sizable percentage of Capital Factory startup submissions take the form of the "marketplace." Lots to learn from him. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

When we walked him through our business model and results, he explained that our options would be limited, because the main M&A community was feeling burned by companies like ours. Therefore, if you want to sell IMVU one day, you’ll need to abandon your business model, even though it’s generating a lot of revenue per customer.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. But then again, this is what skeptics have been predicting for 10+ years. What I was purporting was just “the greater fool theory”.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Kevin – consumer Internet plays, often times they don’t have a business model. Rick – I’m a Boston-based VC. In your case, come to Boston. Rick – I first see if I like the team, how are they going to start targeting the market they think they can address. Join a startup.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

25- Inspired by a Boston dentist. I started my first company after being inspired by a Boston dentist who needed to be able to measure the bite pressure of his patients. Our VAs helped us rapidly scale our business and our system began to attract the attention of friends who were also business owners. That’s what we do.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital doesn’t publish frequently, but his essays on market trends and Benchmark portfolio companies are a window into how VCs view the world and the kinds of business models that they find most interesting. Andrew Parker is a VC with Spark Capital in Boston. Follow Bill on Twitter @billgurley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2013

They also favor entrepreneurs who are experienced in starting a company, and experienced in the business domain of the startup. Your business model may be very attractive, but if you are new to this game, you may not be fundable. Angels like to get involved directly with the team.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. For example, CVS opened its Digital Innovation Lab in Boston as did John Hancock , while Thomson Reuters picked both Boston and Waterloo Canada and Coca-Cola has its Bridge Innovation Lab in Tel Aviv.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. Our Events ▾ 6/14/12 · Boston. Boston Events ›. Business, life sciences, and technology news — covering Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Detroit, San Francisco, New York and beyond. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. New York ›.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. Just imagine the Sophia Robot , with a Boston Dynamics -like exoskeleton underneath it. The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. Business model? It can be lower cost and can either buy more time or accelerate growth. NextView Ventures: What is venture debt, and how should startups approach it as a source of capital? Traction and revenue?

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Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120

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.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Most importantly, I became convinced that Stitch Fix was one of those rare companies where the unique product advantage also contributes to a unique business model advantage. Dell’s product offering advantage, building to custom order, simultaneously created a business model advantage. This is business model nirvana.

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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. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2012

They also favor entrepreneurs who are experienced in starting a company, and experienced in the business domain of the startup. Your business model may be very attractive, but if you are new to this game, you may not be fundable. Angels like to get involved directly with the team.

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Angel Investor Silicon Valley Exit Strategy Boston 245

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Instead, students need to write two blog posts, comment on two of their classmate's posts and participate in a business model excercise modeled after Steve Blank's "business model canvass" exercise at Stanford. We do not have a final exam. You can see the course blog here.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley Boston 47

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

They know this and know that weapons that can be built at a fraction of the cost and upgraded via software will destroy their existing business models. Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. In the U.S., To do so he started the Defense Innovation Unit ( DIU).

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