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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) (No value judgments here, VCs were doing what the market rewarded them for, and their investors expected – maximum returns.) (And

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. The recently announced $5.3B

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How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change

Duct Tape Marketing

And I think that we need to start thinking much more about these seemingly unlikely events and how they'll change our companies, because it turns out that well, any one of these might be unlikely and aggregate. Well, Uber has actually made new things possible in cities, new business models possible, uh, new businesses possible.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

That also backfired on service development since we had to focus on current problems instead of adding new functionalities. Letting inertia and stubbornness limit your growth and ability to change your business model was cited as cause for failure almost 1/5 of the time. #8 Now I just need a business model.

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How to Run Marketing Experiments The Right Way

ConversionXL

Popularized in the mid-late 2000’s by the rise of DIY website testing tools like Optimizely, Monetate, and Adobe Target, A/B Testing turned a previously painful and statistically rigorous mathematical process into a comparatively easy method of improving conversion rates. Some business models use experimentation to great effect already.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

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