K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., In my mind, there are two main facets to Revenue Development: a) Business model iteration, and, b) Pricing iteration. Very often what a startup’s business model is going to be is unclear. Google’s first business model wasn’t based on advertising.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Indeed you can still see today he uses the same modified AOL logo he used back then: As a platform, this worked precisely because AOL provided the two key components every platform must deliver to create value: distribution , and monetization. Until it didnt.

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