Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

It means you're relevant to the business, and if your trip around the cycle is successful, you'll have helped the organization get closer to its goals. Another way to find the metric you want to change is to look at your business model. If it's the number of invites sent, it's virality.

Metrics 156

Metrics Analytics Lean Churn Rate 156

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

We’re testing a viral loop, direct sales, and affiliate marketing.&# If I can steal your idea by just hearing it, there is no defensible business model there. If you’re waiting for a technical co-founder to put up a landing page with signup form, you’re lazy. A: “I don’t know.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder NDA Founder Sweat Equity 47

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2011

Implement a new business model. Software as a service (SaaS) has now pretty much replaced the old licensing model, but offering it was a strategic risk for SalesForce.com. Once you have established your credibility and value, a strategic partnership may lead to other business relationships or a funding source.

Founder 245

Founder Forecast Startup Viral 245

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats. 3) Raise capital. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. It’s critical to establish this component of your business before thinking seriously about growth. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S.

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. Well when I hear that I think of writing checks because I feel like that’s all I do sometimes as a founder of start ups is write checks because you don’t see them when they come in. They have 27 business units.

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Implement a new business model. Software as a service (SaaS) has now pretty much replaced the old licensing model, but offering it was a strategic risk for SalesForce.com. Once you have established your credibility and value, a strategic partnership may lead to other business relationships or a funding source.

Forecast 257

Forecast Viral Social Network Business Model 257

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

During the critical times when PayPal was developing its business model innovations and scaling up, we found ourselves needing to navigate a series of make-or-break challenges, or as I like to call them, “Oh s**t!” Much the same logic applies to nearly every aspect of your business. Our user growth was stalled.

Finder 28

Finder Rhode Island Cofounder Engineer 28

Gust

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Implement a new business model. Software as a service (SaaS) has now pretty much replaced the old licensing model, but offering it was a strategic risk for SalesForce.com. Once you have established your credibility and value, a strategic partnership may lead to other business relationships or a funding source.

Forecast 188

Forecast Viral Social Network Business Model 188

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.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. My experience is that many founders actually have a deep anxiety that maybe they are not succeeding.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2010

Implement a new business model. Software as a service (SaaS) has now pretty much replaced the old licensing model, but offering it was a strategic risk for SalesForce.com. It’s a bad risk to count only on word-of-mouth and viral social network buzz for marketing, as I see in many business plans today.

Entrepreneur 243

Entrepreneur Forecast Viral Business Model 243

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company. Sometimes, this comes from a prior business with an existing user-base or customer list (eg: Fab). Some products have what look like great viral loops, but aren’t very successful.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

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. Perhaps the least understood advantage comes from Twitter’s follower model, which is asymmetric.

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Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307