reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

What do you see as the challenges to that business model for most people that attempt to do it? The intent of the business model, but we'll kind of map out that whole ecosystem. And you know, not a fun business model to run. Like it's not about, you know, going viral and reaching masses. Like, yeah.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Needless to say, this isn’t a business model that works in the pandemic world. Frequently, however, you need to pivot your business model and find new ways to make money. Business model evolution is the rule, not the exception. The only problem was, we didn’t have a working business model.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. They have 27 business units. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. One of them is Mint.

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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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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 7, 2015

Efficiently communicating your strategy, business model, and competitive differentiation is required for many critical things you will do as a company. It may simply be an expense analysis, or a detailed pricing model, or a TAM (total available market) analysis. Investors are not solely evaluating your company’s story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. In the industry they call this the “viral coefficient.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2018

So at the end of the day, it’s about embracing your uniqueness, your differentiating factors, and then understanding that being different actually is a far easier way to be remembered in any crowded niche than just simply being better than your competitors. We want to be able to have someone say, “Oh, that John.

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