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MARCH 25, 2016
In the early days of every business the incumbents tend not to respond because you’re too small and insignificant. As they see you grow the become intrigued and probably analyze your business model and potential. They literally can’t respond to our core differentiator. But assuming they were able to copy us.
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JUNE 4, 2013
I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model. Business Model. why did they buy?
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011
It’s developing a differentiated product in a market where you can demonstrate value to your customers – whether they’re paying or not. They have to make the tough decisions about where to allocate scarce resources, what the future business model will become and how to compete with other large platforms out there.
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MARCH 1, 2011
Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). Part 2/3 of Interview: Mike Joins Quigo as CEO, Sells it to Aol for $340 Million [ Minutes: 13 – 30 ].
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JULY 10, 2011
This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. I think that today’s journalists want a simple story: “Twitter hasn’t yet proved its business model” but I think that misrepresents the long-term value. In many ways they seem more open to encouraging developers these days.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2011
The community they had developed was extremely valuable and is what differentiated StackOverflow from the free, open source alternatives that were created in response to StackExchange. The original business model for StackOverflow was to help employers find good programmers. Monetizing StackExchange.
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