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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. Reply Nivi , on November 16, 2009 at 9:47 am Said: Great stuff. I would love to get your feedback on these thoughts: 1. Great quote.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media. In addition to operating its own applications, Buddy Media helps large media companies and marketers develop, build, manage, and promote social media applications. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency.

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The Best-Ever Culture Decks: Learn From Netflix, GoDaddy, LinkedIn, And Other Rock Stars

YoungUpstarts

One gamechanger: when Netflix’s CEO, Reed Hastings, published the Netflix culture deck online in 2009. It went viral — and crystallized how important culture was to Netflix’s growth and success, and revealed why people with the right values and culture fit loved working there. But the deck did far more. Get into the details.

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Cracking The Code: Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII.

Cracking the Code

Friday, February 27, 2009. New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., Great companies have been founded during downturns and Bessemer sees a lot of investment opportunity in the current market environment," said Ed Colloton, Chief Operating Officer of Bessemer Venture Partners. ▼ 2009. (9).

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

We became a global company and it was truly an entrepreneurial dream come true for Brant, our team, and me. And Netflix is spending big money on this: $40 million to cover the licensing and overhead costs, which will cost them greatly at their current operating profit of $17 million per quarter (compared to Blockbuster’s $1.9

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. I rcommend you try building a cross-functional team and see what happens.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. Move R&D offshore Operations Follow your customer growth, don’t grow data center and support capacity ahead That said, I would like to close this post will a couple of more cheerful comments. ► 2009. (9).