Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! What a bubble means for each entrepreneur. I believe that.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. Max Delivery does the same, with one big difference: Kozmo was free and was killed by its high-cost, low-revenue business model. (In

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners on their best business or entrepreneur turnaround story and here are the responses. #1- Airbnb has changed the world, created a new business model for many people, and has drastically impacted how people look at properties and the space that they own.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

For the first time, entrepreneurs could build consumer services AND distribute them at scale with almost no physical middle men and inventory costs. Before the iPod debuted in 2001, MP3 players became a billion dollar business led by companies such as Creative Technology. Consumer trends are fickle (see Flip Video).

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 9, 2006

The best plan in my mind is to make sure that any company we invest in has a tremendous market opportunity with a real business model and high operating margins that can eventually generate real cash flow. And as I am sure many entrepreneurs know, you can’t spend GAAP Net Income but you can spend cash.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Rand Fishkin: I think it’s a company that is striving for rapid growth and seeking to find a scalable, repeatable business model that works. John Jantsch: Isn’t that every business? ” and trying to pass that on to a next generation of entrepreneurs but also to myself. I don’t get it. No surprise.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

We also sell to both individual consumers and smaller businesses through our Salary.com website. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. In fact, during the last 3 fiscal years for the company, it did $6.4mm, $10mm, and then $15mm in revenue. million, $0.9

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

10 – Obsessed with Entrepreneurs & Music. I am obsessed with entrepreneurs. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We want to treat the entrepreneur's project or company not as a deal but as if it is our own life's work as well. Then above that is business model power—so, how do you make money? I've been in venture now twice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

As an example, Joel says that there is a chief revenue officer who is solely responsible for bringing in revenue to StackExchange. He is responsible for bringing in revenue from advertising and their careers offering. It was a concious business decision from the top. 29:45 minutes. Leaving Juno and Blogging.

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