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. We were putting the plan before the planning.

Lean 317

Lean Georgia Michigan Business Model 317

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Business model: o They bought a lot of ad inventory (banner ads/advertising) driving people to signup forms, converting (fill out form) and sold leads, o Initial strategy was first comparison shopping and then monitoring and upselling on more savings. He typed lowermybills.com was not registered and available so he bought it.

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO.

IPO 180

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 180

Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 30, 2021

This book will teach you that it’s not your mindset that needs to change, it’s your business model. Check it out and implement Taki’s systems to take your business from surviving to thriving. Taki’s been coaching business owners since 2004 and is one of the experts when it comes to converting sales.

Design 148

Design Conversion Social Media Business Model 148

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

05:20] Could you shed some light on your business model? 06:14] One challenge of the Fractional CMO model is essentially selling your time. So tell me a little bit about your particular business model, organization wise. [03:42] Can you define the specific responsibilities and boundaries of a Fractional CMO? [04:40]

Social Media 78

Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 78

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

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? Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. Though I was told by many in the gift industry that a business cannot exist with just one product, I had faith that I could pull this off. Now, matching business owners with the perfect VA has become my passion. 12- I needed to pay my rent!

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur LLC Technical Review Finder 127

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. Gmail has also changed a lot since it was first introduced in 2004, with the most significant change being that now emails are automatically archived and deleted after 30 days.

Startup 127

Startup Social Media Global Incubator 127

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

" I first started using Phanfare in late 2004 and have been a fan since.  As you know, seasoned entrepreneurs know how to be flexible and make course corrections in their business model and distribution strategy as the market evolves.

Caching 60

Caching Software Review Mobile Cloud 60

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Not mentioned in the movie is the unbelievable story of a Peter Thiel one of the founders of PayPal investing $500,000 in 2004 in exchange for approximately 5% of Facebook. No doubt Thiel's cat-bird seat as CEO of PayPal in the late 1990's allowed him to "get" instantly the scalability of the Facebook business model.

Social Network 72

Social Network Networking Technical Review Flash 72

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

If your business model literally can’t work without you raising $50-100mm more, then you’re playing a pretty dangerous game that was always obviously heavily reliant on friendly capital markets that might disappear. Grow the f**k out of the business while making sure you’re making money on each customer, client, etc.

Stock 97

Stock Marketing Valuation Later Stage 97

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.

Business Model 109

Business Model Internet Restful Marketing 109

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Loyalty experts will swear this is not true, and will use complex models to demonstrate ROI of their systems. My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. All merchants have to fund are the discounts or whatever other benefits they want to give.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO.

IPO 100

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 100

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. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

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? Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. Make no mistake, you will need to have a business model or a business plan that shows just where you sit in relation to your competitors. If your investor is a match with your industry, believe it or not, the next most important thing is YOU and your TEAM.

Exit Strategy 91

Exit Strategy Advisory Board Business Plan Portfolio 91

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. While the Customer Development class was cutting edge theory in 2004, by 2009 the class was getting stale.

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Lean Developer Customer 219

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. They kind of invented this business model. Google has optimized this open source to freemium model in almost all of its products.

Founder 42

Founder Los Angeles PHP Open Source 42

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 25, 2016

Since meeting in 2004 Matthew and Jamie have had their share of up and downs, which you could say is normal for any couple. However, when they met, Matthew was already married… to his business. Our Guests Since meeting in 2004 Matthew and Jamie have had their share of up and downs, which you could say is normal for any couple.

France 60

France Business Model Internet Programming 60

BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2004

Rather than go into the software (which I really like btw, combination RSS reader, bookmark manager, and simple collaboration tool), I wanted to share some of our thoughts about consumer-based web businesses circa 2004. The post Web-based businesses circa 2004 appeared first on BeyondVC.

Web 60

Web XML Guerilla RSS 60

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

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The challenge with our business model is that we are dependant on both an internal team as well as constantly revolving remote teams. He founded the company in 2004 and has grown it to be the largest event staffing company in North America, with a database of more than 100,000 talented brand ambassadors and promotional models.

North America 100

North America Database America Hiring 100

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2014

When critical mass is lost, the business model itself starts to crumble. It was built in 2004 at a cost of $220 million. The online version of a newspaper can no longer pretend X number of readers saw the advertisement, no less than they can pretend that Y number of people clicked on it.

Channel 85

Channel Business Model Advertising Revenue 85

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While it’s not advisable to obsess over companies competing in your field, it’s always a good idea to be aware of their business models , the updates they make, and how your product/service may have an advantage over theirs. Having a good product but a wrong business model.

Venture Capital 77

Venture Capital Cofounder Finance United States 77

BeyondVC

MARCH 22, 2004

How does seeing an architecture diagram where the vendor’s products are in 12 places in a stack solve her business problem? Given this tension between vendors and proprietary lock-in, it is no surprise that open-source and open-platform technology and new business models like the hosted or subscription sale are spreading rapidly.

Architecture 60

Architecture Early Stage Open Source Security 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013. Business model. Remember that a BHAG shouldn’t be unrealistic, but it shouldn’t be easy either. It’s a bigger, scarier, more audacious goal than you’ve ever chased. Its prime purpose is to drive you and your team forward to do the impossible. Company goals.

Connecticut 162

Connecticut New York City New York Australia 162

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Questionable business model. Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Their offer was rebuffed and the company went public five years later.

IPO 162

IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Google IPO 2004 – 5 years after it was founded. Legal Issues & Regulation: On top of all its general business challenges, Uber is fighting dozens of legal cases. It is also highly likely government regulation will further impact its business model as its drivers become legally recognised employees.

IPO 48

IPO Valuation Stock Cost 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. I’ve already started the business modeling. When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. Venture Financings we Discussed.

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Replay the event. the previous year.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island South Dakota 107

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Many of these teams are focused on sectors such as financial services and healthcare, which already have large data sets to build upon, and which can benefit from the aggregation and analysis of that data to create new services or business models in these sectors.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2011

There is something really beautiful about a group that has shared motivations and beliefs, but very diverse businesses and business models.

Small Business 58

Small Business Marketing Social Media Engineer 58

Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2018

This spirit of purpose and empowering those around us led to our purpose-driven business model called Community Commerce, which equips underserved people and communities with access to the opportunities and resources that enable them to create lasting value for themselves and others. Photo Credit: Art Barter.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Community Leadership Canada 48

Jeff Hilimire

MAY 2, 2018

Amazon’s description of Do the KIND Thing: For the socially conscious, the intellectually curious, or the creative soul comes an inspiring, New York Times bestselling handbook for success in business, life, and the all-important task of building a more compassionate world—by the visionary founder and CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks.

New York 28

New York Business Model Entrepreneur Founder 28

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2014

Phuket’s western beaches, thankfully, have recovered from the extensive damage they suffered during the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, the catastrophe that also ravaged many other coastal communities around the Indian Ocean and claimed the lives of over 230,000 people in fourteen countries.

Singapore 166

Singapore Thailand Asia Developer 166

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. Author : Todd. Company : YouCastr.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Startup Vesting 79