David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

It’s interesting that in 2009 there was a peak for our companies in use of the freemium model. After the market downturn, I think that investors in general got more picky about “real” revenue models. Since 2009, people have consistently been pronouncing the model dead.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and “improved” versions. But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model. Continuous Delivery/Deployment – The Marketers View.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

They are launching their next book, a true field guide for entrepreneurs, called The Lean Entrepreneur: How to Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets. Market segments drive your business model. The market segment you pursue is inextricably linked to the other aspects of your business model.

Entrepreneur 167

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night. Revenue is driven by children’s parties, which cost $600-$4,000 for a two hour party for 15 kids, which apparently is the market price for kids parties in LA.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

A mission-driven company that understand its client-base and a founder that has done the prep work needed prior to launching a business. Validate your product before going to market. Some questions to consider when working through the initial start-up phase are: is my product/idea needed in this market?

CPA 140

CPA Business Model Employee Founder 140

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

This isn’t a company yet, it’s an idea, and the founder could do a lot more on his own to validate product-market fit before raising capital. The two founders invested $40k in the business, and plan to license it rather than manufacture it because manufacturing seems too hard. in 2012 sales and $2M in income.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. In July 2012 we’ll teach 50 more teams, and another 50 in October. Few of the Principal Investigators or Entrepreneurial Leads had startup experience, and few of the mentors were familiar with Business Model design or Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. In an existing market it’s clear who your competitors are.

North Carolina 335

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. The company saw its revenue drop by 25% in 2012, and Johnson was unceremoniously ousted from his position in April 2013. One of his biggest mistakes since starting his business came in 1994, in the form of Virgin Cola.

Technical Review 60

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2013

.” Joel describes how the changes surrounding us (technology, smartphones, social media, online shopping, and on and on and on) have combined to change the DNA of business and how nothing can or will ever be as it was. CTRL ALT DELETE is the necessary process to reboot and re-build your business model.

Viral 93

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. I knew all the time I’m not that type of person to give in ever, regardless of difficult situations in life and in business.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

billion dollar business this year to $5 billion by 2012, taking market share away from DVD retailers and intensifying the carriers' ambition to bid for the best (and first run) titles. revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. Business model doesn’t make money. Even a non-profit has to generate revenue (or donations) to offset operating costs. Not every good idea is a good business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Without users, business owners aren’t going to waste time promoting and marketing their content to your users. In order for local businesses to buy in, they need to a) reach a large percentage of their customer demographic, b) save them time on their existing marketing efforts, and c) not duplicate any of their existing efforts.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. In an existing market it’s clear who your competitors are.

North Carolina 227

North Carolina New Jersey New York Government 227

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Last week, Vancouver's GROW 2012 conference convened some all-stars of the startup scene, stirring together corporate leads from Indiegogo, Eventbrite, Zite, Paypal, Cheezburger Inc. Know your business model from the get-go. Create the perception that you're a market leader too - but don't forget to deliver on the promise.

Silicon Valley 155

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

If, on the other hand, there is some near term prospect of cash flow (say within six months or a year) but no ability to repay in the meantime, then the entrepreneur may try and find a way to finance his “pre-revenue period” using friends and family money that accepts a somewhat lower payment in recognition of a relationship beyond just investing.

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

« Calculating Market Share | Main. | When mapping a market, its important to study pricing strategy. Of course, everyone understands that somewhere in the equation theres revenue, whether directly or indirectly. The price for the current product in the market is about $750. October 2012. Enter your Email.

Software Review 60

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Americas new business model: Sharing. But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Game Hunters. Jinny Gudmundsen. Marc Saltzman. Science Fair.

San Francisco 105

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

innovation is heavily suffering right now – almost anything is a business model. when many vaporware and vapor-businesses crash or fade away they leave damage, possibly fueling the recession (remember 1999-2000? Eventually it also needs revenue growth and profits.

Angel Investor 24

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Business of Social Networks: We have seen a coalescing of business models form around social networks and not surprisingly the vast majority of them are evolutions of advertising models. This will work but as companies demand more (see next prediction) the ad driven model will evolve in ways not previously seen.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

. | We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? Investors love entrepreneurs who understand their business model, and can describe it accurately. In my mind, a "business model" reveals the structure of the profit engine that underlies the venture.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Last week, Vancouver's GROW 2012 conference convened some all-stars of the startup scene, stirring together corporate leads from Indiegogo, Eventbrite, Zite, Paypal, Cheezburger Inc. Know your business model from the get-go. Create the perception that you're a market leader too - but don't forget to deliver on the promise.

Silicon Valley 98

Silicon Valley Portland Startup Seattle 98

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Macro conversions are the primary goal of your website, to convert user traffic into revenue. On the other side of the coin, micro conversions are actions a user completes that are either on the path to revenue-generating macro conversions or not directly related to revenue-generation at all. 1) Revenue per visitor.

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Metrics Acquisition Conversion Revenue 121

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 21, 2013

This year’s conference will go deeper on advanced entrepreneurship topics, and we wanted to get you up to speed on some of the key ideas from 2012. None of these, she says, provides information about how well your company is delivering on your business model, nor about the true lifecycle of a customer. Retention (do they return?),

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev.

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Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible. I started a real estate business because I needed more freedom and to be in a career where I had full control of my schedule, my growth, and my income. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model.

Entrepreneur 91

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2013

Released: 2012. He founded and ran SuccessFactors and led them to $364 million in annual revenue ultimately resulting in a $3.5 SAP then put Lars in charge of its newly formed Cloud Business unit, which he promptly grew to $1 billion in annual revenue. You ain’t f **g with my clique. Jay-Z, Clique. popover_trigger].

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. times at 5 years and 11.39

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Companies that find product/market fit deserve to grow--and if there are enough of those, there will be enough capital to follow them. Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? Facebook is doing billions in revenues. LinkedIn has great revenue growth. The have actual revenues that are growing. stock market."

Angel Investor 104

Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Last week, Vancouver’s GROW 2012 conference convened some all-stars of the startup scene, stirring together corporate leads from Indiegogo, Eventbrite, Zite, Paypal, Cheezburger Inc. Know your business model from the get-go. Building A Great Product Is Not. Dont Be Afraid To Be Ridiculous. Obnoxious, sure. Definitely.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Portland Startup Seattle 60

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2017

So I started to put together the Waiakea brand with my Hawaiian cousin and my co-founder Matt over the next 3 years focusing on these 3 pillars of Health, Sustainability, and Ethics/Charity, and we finally launched in 2012. . Tell us about your business and what you do. . . Otherwise, just stop. Elon Musk for President haha . .

Hawaii 48

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

It is true that the SaaS model faces some challenges like service reliability, data privacy, lower level of customization, integration with existing applications, vendor viability concerns. whereas traditional software companies of this size have a growth rate of less than 10% and revenue multiples of 2-2.5x. 8:37 PM. .

Software Review 48

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The company has gotten off to a fast start, $150k in revenue in the first two months, with all the marketing coming from social media. But it only costs $65k to buy a new food truck, so it is easy for others to enter the market. Barbara did have some very good marketing ideas for the company, but marketing is not their problem.

Pre-Money Valuation 101

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Differentiation 101

Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

This whole process got me thinking about the textbook business model. A bill pending in Congress would require publishers to sell "unbundled" versions of the books and disclose book prices to faculty in their marketing materials. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue.

San Jose 28

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model.  By this time (in six months) we will be getting 20 orders per day from these two callers and our revenue will stabilize at that rate. How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model.

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