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Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. When companies want to innovate a new business model (vs.
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., These are questions that a startup needs to think about, as they are key to its ability to build a lasting business. In my mind, there are two main facets to Revenue Development: a) Business model iteration, and, b) Pricing iteration.
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Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
O’Reilly has good intentions, but he’s wrong—both about blitzscaling and in his desire to turn back the clock. Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 27, 2011
The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 3, 2012
I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 12, 2009
I last wrote about the iPhone in November 2007 when my wife and her friends started getting iPhones. From a business model perspective we had it nailed…or so we thought…buy the hardware device at cost and we would make money back by selling a monthly subscription service.
aweissman.com
APRIL 14, 2010
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. AOL offered distribution through its thousands and then millions of users. Until it didnt.
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