Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. I’m now getting more involved in my new job as CTO and I’m too busy to go back and forth negotiating this.” Advisory Board. But I was crushed.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Customer Acquisition – social media, SEO, SEM, etc Economies of Scale – not as big a barrier in web world Investment – little to none required to get started Pricing – free or freemium makes trial simple Distribution – syndication and APIs make partnering easier IP – in general the battle has been over users and less on IP many more (please comment (..)

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. Free product. Page 3: Competition. Page 5: Financials.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

Wanting to continue to be super active and independent long into our senior years my sisters and I put our heads together to design, manufacture and distribute adaptive aids for the aging, disabled and special needs community. I knew that stress was the foundation of our issues; it was necessary to change my method and overall business model.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. Yet the team got the new service up and running and used this to power and grow their business for another 7 years, until they disrupted themselves again by moving aggressively to the streaming model.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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 Now I just need a business model. Sure Twitter gets away with not having a business model, but they’re not the norm. 8 – Lack Passion and Domain Expertise.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Outbrain has also managed to find a business model with OutLoud , its sponsored recommendation product, which offers publishers a cost effective way to distribute their content on Outbrain’s publisher partners. . According to the company, these recommendations get 3.5

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

is really the first version we will send to the media for initial reviews and then also make available as part of a private beta distribution with a limited number of invites, maybe 500 total. In many cases, this is defined by the business model and the investors. For us, then, V1.0

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

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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. Developers who understand and can execute on a business model.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2017

LawnStarter is one such company, so we sat down with their CTO, Jonas Weigert , to learn about how they experiment across their product and communication and how they deal with optimization as a company. They have a ratings system and build distribution algorithms to best distribute lawn care providers to customers.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. In such a case youll have the right to use it, but not to decompile or distribute it and probably youll pay a license amount for it. ", but probably "Version 0.x"

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