Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

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. But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. No further conversations ensued.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. Gigs with Benefits: The gig economy will evolve from its current exploitative business model. New policies will be set in place the world over favouring local and small businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales. Fresh customer base.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales. Fresh customer base.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It’s been over 10 years since Napster came on the scene to disrupt traditional music business models, sparking a wave of debate on the right mix of “free” vs “paid” content going forward with digital that has yet to be fully settled. In the shift to digital music, several models emerged, with the jury still out on the clear winner.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales. Fresh customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Image via Pixabay.com Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

These new entrants disrupted their food categories by offering high quality proprietary recipes, outsourcing their manufacturing, and using their cash and resources on sales and marketing to build distribution and a differentiated brand. Get Out of the Building. But Jon had much bigger ambitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales. Fresh customer base.

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Business Plan Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

Read about How to Write a Business Plan. A business idea is not enough to build a successful business. Ideas are everywhere, but successful businesses are not. The difference lies in having a solid business model and business strategies around your great idea.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

Slide 3: Introduce your business model. How you make money, who pays you, your channels of distribution, and your gross margins. Address your competitors, and explain what differentiates you from them that helps you dominate in your market. Most businesses should be able to show turning a profit by year 3.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform. For the first time, entrepreneurs could build consumer services AND distribute them at scale with almost no physical middle men and inventory costs. Is that too much to ask?

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

For recurring revenue, Uber. Trailing twelve month revenues for the company is over $100 million and the company was valued at over $1.2 How to emulate this great business? Well, first do a quick status check on the perceived value and differentiation of your offerings via running the “what would happen if I doubled my prices?"

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2016

The hottest open source companies are focused on big data, with companies like DataStax, Cloudera , and MongoDB bagging billion-dollar valuations as they earn ever-increasing revenues. Both companies offer Hadoop distributions, but Cloudera has been much more willing to offer proprietary add-ons to complement its open source platform.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The most powerful disruptions occur when a technology disruption and a business model disruption go hand in hand. This ‘double disruption’ forces incumbents to get up to speed with a new technology and a new business model at the same time. it is worthwhile to think about the potential business model disruption.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 9, 2013

Sustainable competitive advantages are not easily copied and generally stem from one or more of the following: vendor relations, product sourcing advantages, prime location, unique products/services; customer loyalty, customer service reputation, or distribution channel advantages. While all I.P. Dynamic Product Line. But for how long?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The company has gotten off to a fast start, $150k in revenue in the first two months, with all the marketing coming from social media. Adding two trucks instead of just one would have increased their revenue far faster, and a $100k investment would have enabled them to do that. In 2010 they did $10k in profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If the elements of your business aren't expertly developed and aligned, even the best dream will be in jeopardy. Such failures ignore the essential business elements investors look for before committing to a startup. Too many competitors or a product with minimal differentiation makes a startup risky.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,” a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue for the company that is running the service.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

If your business model (i.e., “how If you are raising money to start or grow your business, you need to include the details of what you need in the executive summary. Investors will want to know what advantages you have over the competition and how you plan on differentiating yourself. Distribution.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

And then I think in a lot of ways it’s become air for every sort of channel and element and, even as you suggest in your last book, a business model in itself. We think there’s something bigger, as Robert talked about and you talked about, this is a business model change. That’s great.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

You do in small business, in startups, you survive on focus, and my shortcut to strategy that I like is think about identify, market and business offering. Identity is who you are as a business, what you do best, what is your core competent. What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web? What is your key focus?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2020

The concept was not to be lost in the crowd of applicants for a job that didn’t exist, instead create one by differentiating. 6- Pivoting our business model. We’ve recently pivoted our business model to break through the noise. Most businesses make themselves more complicated than necessary.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The 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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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and countless others employ this model. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost. But that’s because they choose that model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2012

The pivot can be applied to any element of the business model, without changing the underlying vision. Revenue model pivot. You can charge ahead blindly, or focus on one of the above pivots to build your differentiation and stay alive. Product versus services pivot. Major competitor pivot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The pivot can be applied to any element of the business model, without changing the underlying vision. Revenue model pivot. You can charge ahead blindly, or focus on one of the above pivots to build your differentiation and stay alive. Product versus services pivot. Major competitor pivot.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? This by itself is a key differentiator for the Watch as a healthcare device. However, if the Apple Watch becomes a device eligible for reimbursement , there’s a huge revenue upside for Apple. to the iPhone.)

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Instead of aiming for hundreds of millions of dollars in software licensing revenue – they want to conquer existing industries and aim for tens of billions of dollars in widget revenues. For a long time, software was viewed as an enabler and accelerant for competitive differentiation for incumbents.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Our system is managed by a patent-pending combination of distributed, grid and peer to peer technologies along with sophisticated analytic algorithms to do the smart matching beween your media and the device. It’s all based on growth and on opening the capabilities of the Libox distribution platform to the community. It takes time.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Companies that gamble on creating a differentiated experience for those markets could potentially find themselves on this list next year. There is an opportunity in ‘related services’ Distribution is a real problem for newly launched sites. What differentiated product, service or experience are you providing them?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Craze Productions. GoNet Systems. Logia Group. Media Market.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

The customer experience is the customer’s perception of their interaction with your business. Vanguard decided that focusing on customer experience would help them differentiate from their competitors: Set up experimentation around customizing and personalizing the customer experience. million; Total revenue: $97.5

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