Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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. It''s that the business model is complex. But if my measurements show me that people will only pay $8 a widget, is that a failure?

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Chris Anderson does a nice job of summarizing the rise of the "free" business model starting with the Razor/razor blade to the world of the web where he argues that all services eventually get priced at their marginal cost. The post The "free" business model appeared first on BeyondVC.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Elon Musk touts launch of ‘SpaceX Seattle’ | Business & Technology | The Seattle Times crowdspring.co/1BadR6p. The Best Digital Business Models Put Evolution Before Revolution – HBR crowdspring.co/1D6Ue1u. 8 Ways To Make Working From Home More Efficient | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1D6Uei4.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

For example, you may decide that a small business needs a widget like yours (hypothesis) so you outbound to 100 of them (goals) with a vaporware deck to see if you could sell some pre-orders. Very quickly, those bullets turn into a few things: One or more hypotheses. Goals for early efforts to prove or disprove your hypotheses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. It has taken some very deep pockets to get to this point, so now you know why I smile when you tell me your plan emulates the Facebook model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. It has taken some very deep pockets to get to this point, so now you know why I smile when you tell me your plan emulates the Facebook model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. It has taken some very deep pockets to get to this point, so now you know why I smile when you tell me your plan emulates the Facebook model. Twitter has no model.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Americas new business model: Sharing. What distinguishes the latest generation of start-ups is a confluence of new technologies and more-efficient business models that leave much of the logistical heavy-lifting to peers who share. Americas new business model: Sharing. Game Hunters. Jinny Gudmundsen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. It has taken them six years to get to this point, and some very deep pockets, so now you know why I smile when you tell me your plan emulates the Facebook model. Twitter has no model.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

These playlists can even be embedded into any website through a widget, enabling any site to share relevant material to enhance existing content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. It has taken them six years to get to this point, and some very deep pockets, so now you know why I smile when you tell me your plan emulates the Facebook model. Twitter has no model.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2018

After many, many conversations we came to understand the point – by focusing on Pipsqueak we were limiting our ability to scale to our ability to make widgets, and that was unnecessary. This experience prompted us to prioritize building the Yip Yap Kids app with a “bring your own device” subscription based business model.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Not easy, but your business model has to change to survive.). Naked Wines has a lovely widget next to each of their wines that shows the would buy again rate…. ModCloth has a whole lot of social proof strategies. They have a Style Gallery, #ModClothSquad, #MarriedinModCloth etc. Think expansively about social proof.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. . Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

You know you have achieved product/market fit when you start getting orders (or users, eyeballs or whatever your criteria for success was in your business model.) I’m currently developing a widget product for e-retailers to make shopping social. Is our solution compelling enough that they want to buy it or use it today?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2017

Your content isn’t at the risk of any other business model besides your own. Unlike someone offering widgets or commodities, you want to encourage interaction with your list. You create it with the intention of driving customer action. Your website is the perfect tool to publish your content. You own it.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Second, Apple vertically integrated the user experience, business model and distribution model. Put simply, VCs like consumer hardware companies with software-like business models. They made Walkman owners, with their foam earphones and bulky booklets of CDs, feel left out of this invented community.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2015

WHY I’M INTERESTED: I work for a software company that offers a subscription-based product, but I still have a lot to learn about this kind of business model. From the description: “The membership-based business is a problem-solver for both businesses and individuals. By Robbie Kellman Baxter. By Rodd Wagner.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Some startups die because their business model is platform-dependant. Specifically, an advertiser might be willing to pay $3 to have someone with 10,000 followers tweet about how great their widget is, as in this Ad.ly Companies like TweetUp and Ad.ly popped up as liaisons between advertisers and popular Twitter-ers.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

.” If the company adopted this model, not only would they have more revenue ($24K/year vs. $20K one-time) from the sale of the robot, but they would end up with a recurring revenue model, which would make for a much better business model for the company rather than selling complex widgets.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Instead of aiming for hundreds of millions of dollars in software licensing revenue – they want to conquer existing industries and aim for tens of billions of dollars in widget revenues. Not content to simply sell incumbents software, these companies merge domain expertise with software native DNA to attack incumbent head on.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

If the notion has reached the popular business press, then it’s indeed a pervasive story. A few weeks ago Businessweek’s article Widget’s Worth talked about “cracking the monetization code,” wondering how social widget applications are going to make money. But it goes beyond just widgets and social networks.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

If the notion has reached the popular business press, then it’s indeed a pervasive story. A few weeks ago Businessweek’s article Widget’s Worth talked about “cracking the monetization code,” wondering how social widget applications are going to make money. But it goes beyond just widgets and social networks.

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aweissman.com

MAY 20, 2018

And sometimes that value can be more fundamentally important to those customers that the actual “widget” that is being sold. The value of control, or agency over a person’s own time and space, is hard to measure or quantify in a business model. Netflix is a good example. The Netflix analogy here is instructive.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2015

On the web, not only does no one know much of who you are, but no one cares how you sourced your widgets. My preconceived notions of the possible range of business models simply didn’t include this one. Bazaarvoice, a company in Austin, Texas is a great example of this kind of operation.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. That’s the problem we are working hard to solve.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. I think the point is that not everyone does, and it's better to have a crappy app these days than none at all. PM OK, agree. Appcelerator and PayPal Team Up for M. Paypal Debuts Mobile Express Checkout View More » Social Good MTV Launches Interactive Visualizatio.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

IP-based services, reduce service delivery costs and introduce new services and Internet business models to grow revenues and IP service profitability. Over 20 tier 1 operators successfully deployed Telmap’s solutions opening new business opportunities and generating new revenue streams.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It’s proven to work across industries and business models. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. In a nutshell, we can learn: what people are doing, the impact and performance of every feature, widget, page, where the site is leaking money, … but we won’t know why. B2B and B2C. Hypothesize.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2014

What they did was adding a customer testimonial widget to their product pages. A company increasing sales – not by changing business models, adding products, giving offers – but just recognizing a persuasion hook and using it to drive more conversions. This is how the control and the variation looked. Comparison Image.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Despite the seduction of media and consumer applications I also realize that my strengths are in enterprise technology, which is only really defined as selling something to a business customer. Lastly, you really have to check out the results of an extensive rebranding effort that affects the website , communities, and widgets!

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

(An effective follow-up document, the business plan, will mirror this format with greater detail of the competitive benefits a company offers.). Avoid highly technical writing because at this early stage, investors are trying to get a big-picture snapshot of your company, not what kind of alloy you use in your widgets.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 4, 2019

This makes sense because in many instances the entrepreneur is pioneering a completely new product, business model or industry where there simply are no precedents and no way to know whether something will work until it’s tried. One of the things you realise when you first start a business, is just how little you actually know.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

“I pre-stage my investments by developing my own ideas of great business models & frameworks — when I meet a founder doing something similar I can make a quick decision,&# says Craig. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. View More » Social Good Stop Cyberbullying and "Find Help" on.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Let’s just for now go with this Craigslist assumption, because at least it’s a business. The other stuff you’re talking about, to me – I still don’t understand the business model and the pain point. You obviously haven’t talked to people to identify it yet. Jared: Right. I just made that up.

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