Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The start of a new quarter prompts common questions from start-up founder’s and executives across Asia: What are our revenues and sales targets? How much further will our revenues drop? How do we achieve our intended goals? Will our funding dry out? Retention of Staff.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

With over a decade + experience in three previous entrepreneurial journeys, I learned the hard way that focus and dedication to build expertise in a specific niche is important and is one of the keys to successful agency business. Due to my effort I was featured on Inc, Iheart radio shows, the morning show by global news and many more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

1 – Business Model. Our business is unique because our business model addresses 2 major shifts in the fashion industry today: 1) the rise of fast fashion and its affect on major more traditional fashion companies like Gap, J. Photo Credit: Stefanie Tacata. crew, Aeropostale, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020? We are proud to be a Baltimore-based company with global reach.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies more focused on later-stage companies include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , BizQualify, Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , SourceScrub , Refinitiv , and Unquote. See their blog post on multiples.).

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

And that’s to say nothing of consumer-friendly features offered by some of the newer entrants, such as overdraft protection. Source: S&P Global So why the large gap in feature sets? The cost of originating and servicing small loans is comparable to larger loans, but the interest and fee revenue is far less.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently impacting every part of our lives and every part of our work is unstoppable and just at the beginning. From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. Yes, the stakes are much higher this time.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Their mission is to end the global addiction to petroleum-based virgin plastics by providing affordable high-grade recycled alternatives. He handles day-to-day operations with the rest of the leadership, while being focused on both investment and revenue generation. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

They moved everything to the online model in late 2013, early 2014, and that’s when kind of landed on the current online learning business model. So it is an increasingly global community. So it has become increasingly global over the years. John Jantsch: Yeah, I guess that was my next question.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

“Going forward, our strategy will focus on creating a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most.” And which global company wouldn’t want to reach customers around the globe? Colour me skeptical.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. The relatively straightforward distribution model in the US for mobile app developers is contrasted by a landscape in China that is simply put, a maze. Innovation is more of monetization and the business model. But on the other hand they have more time.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Startups have honed in on every vertical imaginable, branched out from product to services, and tested out new paths to profitability. We’re now seeing SaaS’ Freemium model come to marketplaces where the base listing is free or very low and sellers pay for enhanced services like better placement. The bottom line.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners. This will work for any kind of business. Marketing Podcast with Robert Glazer. You say you'll pay me 10 bucks.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Whether it’s taking up that hobby, building your dream business , or giving back to the world in some way, money gives us the freedom to become masters of our own reality. A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

If you have a difficult question or problem that requires deep vertical knowledge, you can post it as a brainstorm on the site, along with a reward ranging from $1000 to $5000. The current business model for expert consultants is a brick and mortar industry with revenues of about 1/2 a Billion dollars per year.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Multiples dropped in public and private markets, growth expectations were cut, and business models with high spend for promise of future ROI became quite unfavorable. Your runway is impacted by the absence of projected revenue. Similarly, for a variety of reasons, the music stopped.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Following global marketing trends, copying your competitors and implementing best case practices don’t work for this reason: websites are highly contextual. It’s proven to work across industries and business models. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. You don’t have generic problems.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Easy question to answer, and free with Compete (remember, this is US visits only) or SimilarWeb (global traffic). Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Or is this a gap in their business approach they should fix in some other way?

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