Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones. What’s Missing?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% Including future cancellations, they’ll need to sign up a total of 2000 customers to net 1666.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. outpace an existing company’s business model. You want to start executing the business model. Companies have a fairly predictable life cycle.

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Search Agile Customer Development Technical Review 242

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. Instead of capitalizing on causes, make caring a part of your business model. by Kelly Morr, Senior Manager of Content Strategy at 99designs. It’s true that Millennials care about a lot of issues.

Marketing 150

Marketing eCommerce Technical Review Social Media 150

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Our business model nudges us slightly toward the sound, safe (stodgy?) We work with clients to get them off the ground with a platform to build their business. As the technical partner, we want to be real partners in the business-making sure the technology helps achieve the business objectives.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Max Delivery does the same, with one big difference: Kozmo was free and was killed by its high-cost, low-revenue business model. (In In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Max Delivery charges a fee and makes a profit.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Founded in 2000, Tech Town boasts an incredible list of resources for tech-minded entrepreneurs, including work space, access to capital, educational workshops, and guidance with business development programs, coaching, and mentoring.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The ironic thing about these MLMs is that the philosophy they sell is all true (in relation to business success), but the business model they attach to it is a total fraud. I actually believe that this is a bit like the Dot Com crash in 1999-2000 and is almost a pre-condition for crypto and blockchain to be everything it can be.

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 22, 2011

1000-2000 (~$20-$40) per month to access advanced workflow logistics and intelligence in the area of software testing and productivity improvement. Anand Agarwal from Pune, India, pitched BootStrapToday , an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS solution from his company Sensible Softwares. Sponsor.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Max Delivery does the same, with one big difference: Kozmo was free and was killed by its high-cost, low-revenue business model. (In In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Max Delivery charges a fee and makes a profit.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Video New York City 96

ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

For years, HBR and most of the country’s leading business schools taught entrepreneurship as if the strategies, processes and techniques were some sort of amputated versions of the business models embraced by “real companies.” Big businesses, Blank said, became so “focused on execution, they forgot how to innovate.”.

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Lean Startup Technical Review Business Model 60

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Here’s why. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

One of the tactical moves that I observed USV employ during the mid 2000’s was targeting a relatively lower percentage than their peers. One thing I’ve really come to appreciate in recent years is how much one’s business model drives everything else about a company.

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Dilution Early Stage Business Model Founder 136

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. For starters, there are more startups. The number of new companies that launched each year has increased 234% since 1990.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business.

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Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Max Delivery does the same, with one big difference: Kozmo was free and was killed by its high-cost, low-revenue business model. (In In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Max Delivery charges a fee and makes a profit.

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Technical Cofounder Video Cofounder New York City 60

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . If you’d like to explore more of these concepts in-depth, I recommend 3 resources: .

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

But there’s a huge difference between a small, traditional company and the digitally native powerhouses we consider models of this digital age. The key is looking at your own business — and finding the business model that fits — to chart the best course. And then in the middle 2000’s Domino’s began a sharp decline.

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Philippines Business Model Engineer Operations 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Those with strong business models suddenly stand out when the tide goes out. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 15, 2013

Tweet During the dot com boom around the year 2000, and the years that followed it (this was before I started blogging in 2004), I was a guy in his early twenties looking for a business idea to make my riches with online.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Add in sponsorships with payment brands (kind of like the co-branded credit card business model) to eliminate remaining costs and fund additional word of mouth advertising. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. While all this was true, something else was going on.

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Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2014

President and CEO of SurePayroll Michael Alter is responsible for the overall business model development, strategic planning and day-to-day operations for SurePayroll, a wholly owned subsidiary of Paychex®. Ask if their data center is alarmed and monitored 24/7.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We learned this dynamic in the early 2000’s with our investment in ServiceMagic. We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. Some get it; many don’t. We invested in the company in 1999 during the ascension of the Internet bubble.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 4, 2017

I take a positive approach which is; how can this business model affect small startups entering this space, and what can we learn from building businesses this way? Can a locked in monthly SaaS fee cover the business model needs of a new startup to compete with a large hardware co?

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations. In particular, customers of widely varying technical capabilities, ages, and business models have been keen to deploy SnapLogic. The early results for SnapLogic have been remarkable in their diversity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

People and operational excellence have to converge in every business, large or small. Microsoft found this out last year when their market capitalization, once at $560 billion in the year 2000, had fallen to $219 billion, allowing them to be passed by Apple at $222 billion, who grew from $15.6 billion during the same period.

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Architecture Startup Operations Metrics 250

Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

innovation is heavily suffering right now – almost anything is a business model. when many vaporware and vapor-businesses crash or fade away they leave damage, possibly fueling the recession (remember 1999-2000? whenever investors jump in late (now) many bad things happen.

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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

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Americas new business model: Sharing. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. What distinguishes the latest generation of start-ups is a confluence of new technologies and more-efficient business models that leave much of the logistical heavy-lifting to peers who share.

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Image source ).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. Using the business model canvas, the changes to their business were obvious.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Founded in 2000, by 2010, the company’s fleet already had 8,000 cars. It should fit within your company’s budget and align with your business model. Among real examples, companies that have improved their efficiency through corporate car sharing software, one can highlight the case of the American company Zipcar.

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Software Review Software Mobile Technical Review 139