TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Sure we still get excited and animated about a new JavaScript library, a new CSS trick, a new device, or a new data store. We've learned to think about how this really fits with the business needs of our clients. It's important to us. Our business model nudges us slightly toward the sound, safe (stodgy?)

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Customers gleefully avoid the Blockbuster none-of-these-look-good-just-pick-one-already-zombie-walk — and NetFlix just put Blockbuster out of business — but is this a workable business model? That’s what most people say about NetFlix and Zappos. Word-of-mouth by definition.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

This can be done through products, services, methods, processes, business models or governance. . The reason it needs to come from the world’s Governments is to ensure that new innovations become open-source so that others can build open them – as per the Space Race.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

How about any Nokia phones? Or if you used a paper map to find your way here? These questions and your answers lie at the heart of what I’d like to talk about with you today: the changing face of innovation and your role in it. Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Apple owned 0%.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? Consider if their business worth pursuing? Xu Cui (Ph.D,

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Watching each of the teams present I was left with wonder and awe about what they accomplished. Our keynote speaker for this last class was ex Secretary of Defense General Jim Mattis who gave an inspiring talk about service to the nation. Each of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem.

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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. Do we accept a world where our physical spaces are owned by private companies trying to extract the most “value” out of us? Open-Source Solutions.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Most of us are ready to accept this in the physical world, but we tend to balk at paying for things online. Over the years, Aidan used a mixture of lifetime and subscription-based payments for products as the fairest and most transparent option. Aidan: This is not good for us, for a number of reasons. Everything has a cost.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

So when our company recently decided that we were ready to initiate VC talks, ready to get some funding to take us to the next level, I was surprised by some of the reactions we were receiving. While some VCs that I met seemed to be rightfully bullish about everything that had to do with eCommerce, some seemed to be missing the point.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

It makes sense to think about these now, so that we can consider longer-term career, financial and corporate strategy decisions today. So buckle your seat belt, open your mind and enjoy! Data Becomes a Liability: Data is currently seen as a commercial asset that companies try to acquire from us. Let’s call it 30 for 2030.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

But certainly now as a VC investor I think more about what sort of a founder someone is, to better understand both why they’re starting a company and how they’re likely to go about building it. At some level nearly all tech entrepreneurs are evangelizing something… a new technology, a new business model, a new brand.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

But this still leaves me with lots of questions about the interplay between these tools, so Id ask people who author a blog, use LinkedIn (or other social networking), and participate in discussion groups, how do you use these tools. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong. In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The truth is that successful clothing brands become successful in part because they’re created by people who are passionate about clothing. But, a clothing brand needs more than just exquisite apparel design to create a lasting business. It needs all the trappings of a successful business as well.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good suggestions about ways to improve the design process – [link]. 50+ Ultimate Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers and Designers – [link]. – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2016

But what about your business? You are therefore forced to build some other competitive advantage into your business. For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? What about personal secrets instead of technical secrets?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

I was interviewed by Philip Bouchard , Executive Director of TrustedPeer Entrepreneurship Advisory , about how entrepreneurship education has changed, mission-driven entrepreneurship, and what we’ve learned about corporate innovation. Worth a read. Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. The reason for that is two-fold.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 1, 2017

One innovation we have seen in Blockchain has been the rise of app coins as a way to monetize protocols and open source projects. We might be seeing the emergence of a new technology platform coupled with a business model change. If the protocol is useful, it attracts developers to build on it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. So these days I’m very, very selective about the coaching clients I work with on a sort of one-on-one or a very close basis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Here’s one of my favorite introductions to the subject, courtesy of Martin Fowler : In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Most of us think we know a good design when we see it.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Image credits: Flickr, goincase. PM OK, agree.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

During the two days of the show, one of their programmers sat in on my speech about building better customer service automation; I had an hour-long chat with the CEO and another of the founders; and their PR manager stopped by our booth for a 15-minute briefing about what we do. They didnt even offer to sign an NDA.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2017

The truth is that successful clothing brands become successful in part because they’re created by people who are passionate about clothing. But, a clothing brand needs more than just exquisite design to create a lasting business. It needs all the trappings of a successful business as well. Fill in the Business Blanks.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

We floated that around the office for about a week and said there was no way that that’s going to work. And right about that time you were publishing your notes to the Lean LaunchPad course in spring of 2011, Stanford, E245. That paragraph really resonated with a bunch of us at NSF, me included. . .’ … He charged me.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

agencies that historically owned technology superiority and fielded cutting-edge technologies now find that off-the-shelf solutions may be more advanced than the solutions they are working on, or that adversaries can rapidly create asymmetric responses using these readily available technologies. Its Not Just the Technology.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share. But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business?

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I volunteered as a teaching assistant in Sarahs very first class teaching Ruby and the two of us became good friends. That prototype is now something I use everyday to run my recruiting business. Im trying to create a technology enabled recruiting service for an unproven business model. Hes right on so many levels.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The founders of this week’s Small Business Spotlight, Bridge the Gap Villages , thought that travelling could be more than that. It didn’t have to be us versus them, but rather a chance to get to know and understand a culture unique from your own. You can check out their amazing and beautiful photos on Facebook here.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 3, 2018

Every business — theoretically, at least — has customers, but that doesn’t mean that every business needs a CRM. There are, however, a few different business models that will be able to realize significant benefits from an investment in CRM software. We decided to tell you which ones are the best according to us.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. And the future?

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? Hila Qu: That's a fantastic first question to think about.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

So, how can getting financial rewards or material incentives for working harder, smarter, faster and better possibly be detrimental to our business? Most annoyingly for this reward/punishment business model, is that we are the ghost in the machine – humans, with our inexplicable quirks and kinks in our behavior.

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