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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. as well as a potential revenue model (why not start with a framework for revenue?).

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

You can get more sign-ups using viral techniques. The dating website mentioned above leveraged user’s imported email contacts to get more sign-ups, for every 100 email contacts imported, they got 10 new users (10% conversion rate). I’m going to have to try this one day.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.