2003 Business Model Customer Development Sales 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006.
Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. When companies want to innovate a new business model (vs.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 22, 2009
Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. But first some background.)
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
also, like i said, pre-launch, the business guy doesn’t provide much value. after launch, however, having a good business guy becomes very important. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. He called it the “Lean Startup.”.
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