K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). Google’s first business model wasn’t based on advertising.
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
business model is broken. business model that drives job growth in emerging growth companies is IPOs. Government’s commitment to funding breakthrough innovation in basic scientific research. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. The pipeline is dry because the U.S.
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Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. In it we explicitly state: “The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models….What
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. We officially launched in early 1996.
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