SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Price is as important as any other feature to determine product/market “fit.” ” How many times have you seen someone struggle with an inferior product because they cannot afford the better one? Price is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions — by whom, why, how, and when.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. The market and venture capitalists are looking for business, but with a continuing focus on proven business models. Follow with a killer executive summary, investor presentation, and financial model. Line up a winning team.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness. Through our fifteen years, we've been charged with helping clients get business done with technology.

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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. Over time, innovations outside the company (demographic, cultural, new technologies, etc.) outpace an existing company’s business model.

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Harvard Innovation Lab.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. A generation brought up with constantly evolving technologies, Millennials are the most digitally aware and technically savvy of any preceding age group. by Kelly Morr, Senior Manager of Content Strategy at 99designs. They share constantly. Kill clichés.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

You’ll notice underlying the top 10 is what I regard to be the biggest shift in tech at the moment is the realisation that we have a technology wildfire raging. The thing I found most compelling is how hackable the human mind can be when an organisation is selling ‘hope’ instead of an actual product.

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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. When running a startup company, there are many benefits to being at the forefront of technology.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And I was blessed to receive many awards for our product too. I want business owners to remember that this journey of being anentrepreneur is almost never a straight climb to the top. But if you keep going your business will succeed and you will be an inspiration to others along their way. So Snuggwugg was invented.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. There are three forms in which a company can have something new and unique: 1) New technology (the most common form, examples are Twilio, Coin, Occipital). New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.

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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. . 3) Exchanges + HFTs. At least not yet. synthetic stocks or futures) and prediction markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. I would argue that if Apple’s app model continues to succeed it is bad for your health.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Consumer approach to software for business users.

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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.

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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 ). Where do your consumers fall?

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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. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.

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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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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.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Motorola Dynatac 8000x ~1987.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Or this: “Apple doesn’t do loyalty because they produce outrageously awesome products.” If you own an Apple product, you know what I’m talking about. We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Technology Live. Products Home. Americas new business model: Sharing. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Game Hunters. Science Fair. |. Talking Tech. Talking Your Tech. Kim Komando. Shop for Gadgets. |. Gaming Home.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

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 Both had access to the same technology, people, and market. Maximize technology architecture and standards.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Building a technology company is hard. Rather than integrating systems directly, all versions of all products integrate to a canonical format (Memphis for those of you following the metaphor), reducing the number of total integrations from n 2 to 2n-1. At this point, you are probably thinking: “Ben, you are an idiot. The reason?

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Technical Review Memphis Software Review Software 77

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

A similar way of thinking is to “minimize execution risk,” because early on startups are nothing but risk — risk that the product won’t work, risk that the customers won’t pay (enough), risk that you can’t economically acquire customers, risk that the market doesn’t exist, and so on. Where → Why here?

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San Francisco Startup Framework Azure 170

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

He’s also the author of Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change. Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. Gain Grow Retain is built to inspire SAS and technology leaders who are facing day to day.

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Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 62

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

What we didn’t account for was the magnitude of the current correction and the effect that it would have on discretionary luxury spending even within a population that financially could still afford our product. It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users. Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Do they perceive enough value to pay prices that create for you a profit margin that matches your business model?

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Over the weekend Chris Dixon wrote the following in a post about her work and his view on where the opportunities for innovation will most likely come going forward: Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Innovation in the installation period is in the core technologies (e.g.

Internet 137

Internet eCommerce Stock Search 137

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

3] In their analysis Golder and Tellis found almost half of the market pioneers (First Movers) in their sample of 500 brands in 50 product categories failed. Product Pioneer. First to have a working model. First to sell the product. None of the market leaders in technology were the first movers. [1] First Mover.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

John Jantsch: So Teach and Grow Rich, for those that are not familiar with it, really was the kind of the idea of introducing courses, and teaching, and educating, and info products, I guess, which have been with us for years really. This is a great business model. John Jantsch: So what’s changed, Danny? All really good.”

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

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. No entity is immune to technology disruption. No entity is immune to technology disruption. The recently announced $5.3B

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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? Time will tell.

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