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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.
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.) (No value judgments here, VCs were doing what the market rewarded them for, and their investors expected – maximum returns.) (And
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Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.
Austin Startup
MARCH 3, 2020
The San Diego-based startup has developed vertically integrated system that produces a plant-based protein ingredient that can replace egg whites, whey and casein in food and beverage applications. In the end, Ajax lost and my pain was more or less covered by the fact that I didn’t spend $2000 on a ticket to fly back home.
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.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 8, 2013
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.
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). We had the wrong business model.
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