Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

We see evidence in the news every day of these irresistible forces of change, like the pervasive global penetration of the Internet, the impact of terrorist activities even to peaceful countries, the power of social media in building business relationships, and the depletion and pollution of natural resources. Globalization.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

On the topic of ecommerce, one wonders to what extent this business model is applicable, and where is it likely to end? It’s the extent of this phenomenon that has resulted in soaring businesses across the world. For most online vendors, this new revenue model was a significant change in the way brands set advertising campaigns.

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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. It will be akin to the way we trade information with each other on the internet now – except it will be energy – and we will generate excess energy on our buildings.

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Gust

JANUARY 5, 2014

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Many of the Internet business plans I see these days say the service is free, and revenue will come later from a huge user base. Invested Interests business model entrepreneur startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Many of the Internet business plans I see these days say the service is free, and revenue will come later from a huge user base. You need deep pockets to make this one work.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

So we simply went too fast and didn’t anticipate how devoted some people still were to that part of our business. Most businesses, like Kodak or Blockbuster, go out of business when confronted with a radical new business model. How can we optimize for global distribution. You’ve IPOed two companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 23, 2019

But incentives can play funny tricks on business models and digital products, especially ones that begin to permeate the very fabric of our lives. What’s more, entirely new business models can be generated around the safe, secure usage of data in physical and digital systems. Incentives are funny things.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2013

We see evidence in the news every day of these irresistible forces of change, like the pervasive global penetration of the Internet, the impact of terrorist activities even to peaceful countries, the power of social media in building business relationships, and the depletion and pollution of natural resources. Globalization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Many of the Internet business plans I see these days say the service is free, and revenue will come later from a huge user base. You need deep pockets to make this one work.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. It’s a great business. It still serves just 60 customers per day.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

From a young person’s perspective, with tight labour markets, decreasing barriers to entry, low capital-intensive business models and immediate free access to a global market, the appeal is also compelling. What is there not to like? The signs to me are all too obvious from our conversations. The list goes on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Disintermediation is one of the oldest stories of the internet. From the 1990s onward people have been making the obvious case that the internet is a revolutionary communications platform that can remove the middleman and his cut from all sorts of transactions leaving the parties on both side of the deal to share the spoils.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. Furthermore, the steady cashflow in the Western market also comes about because of one key factor: the distribution model. The majority of users are relatively lower-end with lower educational background.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2010

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Many of the Internet business plans I see these days say the service is free, and revenue will come later from a huge user base. You need deep pockets to make this one work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

Entrepreneur 263

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The dominant channel by which we reach customers is the Internet, whether you''re a small local restaurant on Yelp or a global maker of tissue paper. We often tell founders that a business plan is nonsense. A business model, on the other hand, is a snapshot of your business assumptions at this moment in time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To succeed, we will need innovation that is both original and deployed at global scale. the business models to sustain and grow. Entrepreneurs find the right innovations from networks and build them into products and services with business models. That’s how we’ll produce and distribute more food.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2012

The continuing saga, however, is that banks and investors are refusing to take risks and make loans to small business enterprises. Bankers cite high loan losses as the reason, but behind the scenes, most are taking the funds at hand and gambling on the global bond market. What other obstacle must be overcome in today’s economy?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues. Two orders of magnitude. Having a little less money to burn drives the EGC to get its product to market on time.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. Before discussing the merits of low rakes versus high rakes, let us first take a look at current examples of different rakes across the Internet. The table above shows estimated rakes for several online businesses as a percentage of GMS.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

And use free content from the internet to learn new skills and focus on growing your business. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully. In some sense, this is also tied to your business model. Just personally, where do you want to live? Documentation?

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

And use free content from the internet to learn new skills and focus on growing your business. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully. In some sense, this is also tied to your business model. Just personally, where do you want to live? Documentation?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

She is a globally recognized expert on strategy, innovation and growth, and also the author of a fairly new book called Seeing Around Corners: How to spot inflection points in business before they happen. And content distribution. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

For example, Mo.com interviews entrepreneurs from all industries to learn about small business experience and strategies. Under 30 CEO and Young Entrepreneur profile younger CEOs, while Mixergy allows entrepreneurs to share their experiences at part of an online business education. E nter into business plan competitions.

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Eric Friedman

MAY 28, 2009

In the commercial world, the same rules apply; if a business doesn’t seek out feedback or ignores customer opinion of its products, it can repeat its failures, miss opportunity or simply remain stagnant while someone else listens in and builds a better mousetrap.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 13, 2017

But, unlike the darkness of that mythical winter, digital tech is a blizzard of fresh, new capabilities, and new combinations of capabilities, that impact and augment every single aspect of a business, the entire value chain — products, services, distribution, sales, manufacturing, business models – everything.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Creativity is happening within communities and platforms which bring together distribution and collaboration. My earliest encounters with a personal computer, initial uses for the Internet, and 12+ years of product work [Second Life, AdSense, YouTube], were all driven by the conviction that everyone deserves the chance to be creative.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 19, 2010

to be born in a time when the Internet gives me the opportunity to take my ability to produce words and exchange access to them for money. What’s particularly amazing is that the vehicle for distributing your ideas has such low barriers to entry. I feel blessed (or lucky!) Okay, sure, but how? Where do you start?

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