2004 Business Model Revenue Startup 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Almost overnight the floodgates opened, and risk capital was available at scale from venture capital investors who rushed their startups toward public offerings. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. And it may work.
VC Cafe
MARCH 4, 2024
Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. Creating companies, raising funding, completing multi million M&A deals.
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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. outpace an existing company’s business model. You want to start executing the business model. Just like a startup. Creative Destruction.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. we had no revenue. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 5, 2013
I have been involved in many of these innovations, mainly through my last startup venture, a company that became the world’s leading provider of credit card loyalty solutions with bank customers in 30 countries. Loyalty experts will swear this is not true, and will use complex models to demonstrate ROI of their systems.
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