Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. business models. The first is the lack of creativity.

China 327

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 327

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. aggregates resources from all the VCs. The ability to answer quickly and confidently when your business model is having holes poked in it during diligence is really powerful. AskAnything.VC

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

Companies: In the 20 th century when companies competed with peers with the same business model, they wanted employees to help them execute current business models (whether it was working on an assembly line or writing code supporting or extending current products). That’s troubling to me,” Ms. Mayer says.

Entrepreneur 336

Entrepreneur Business Model Capital Gains Aggregator 336

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Westlaw, which provides legal research services for law firms, is another example.

Customer 168

Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Improving your visibility and Rankings on Search Engines with SEO. Many startups are using the pandemic to invest in SEO or Search Engine Optimization. SEO is the process of ranking your website for your industry-relevant keywords on search engines. Build your credibility on search engines.

Social Media 90

Social Media PPC Marketing SEO 90

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. business models. The first is the lack of creativity.

China 219

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 219

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Business Model Issues. Business Model Issues. Yet healthcare has its own unique regulatory and reimbursement issues and business model issues that must be understood. Lots of smart people are running experiments in search of ways to commercialize basic research more efficiently. Regulatory Issues.

Startup 300

Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 300

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

Illinois 165

Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Obviously, traffic found on ecommerce sites is the prime example of this and search traffic is a close second, but increasingly Pinterest is proving itself to be a massive source of high-converting traffic. The business models behind each bucket will vary, of course. Here, intent is clear and the signal is strongest.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The solution is to change our focus from outputs to inputs.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Learn all about how Vi and her team are changing the real estate search and making it easier for you to find the right information. Think of us as the social search for real estate, so you’re not just looking for price and proximity— it’s everything else as well. An example of that would be aggregating supply instead of building it.

Startup 48

Startup Cofounder Elevator Pitch Bootstrapping 48

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Wikipedia.com defines a “startup company (startup or startup) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast-growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around an innovative product, service, process, or a platform.”. Final thoughts.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Its business model consists of advertising and selling the behavioral purchasing data of its consumers – including brand loyalty and frequently searched for products. Bloch was previously a partner in Jerusalem Venture Partners and an active member of the board in the Israeli startup Wix.

Venture Capital 98

Venture Capital Aggregator eCommerce Partner 98

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. That information in aggregate tells a story that any small business should know about their own competitive landscape. It might not be the right thing for them. Caroline: Right.

Small Business 60

Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Now I just need a business model. 5 – Ran out of cash.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Anyone with a web browser pointed at Twitter and a knowledge of how to leverage hashtags and search can avail themselves of a stream of raw information on any topic they can imagine.

Small Business 88

Small Business Public Relations Social Media New York 88

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) A check-in aggregation platform. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Life Beyond Code

APRIL 26, 2015

If the ad revenues from Google websites (mainly Google Search) continues to be the dominant force, there must be something magical about it. Specialty apps are taking a share of the intent expression engine in a big way as parametric searches are superbly build-in within the app interface. Think about it. Specialty apps.

Curation 60

Curation Advertising Engineer Revenue 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). and Organic Search Traffic (can't ever have enough of that!)… See Page 269. :). So how can you use your own data? Lots of good data.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. Company : Wesabe.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007).

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Updated Business tools for Startups. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Â Search for apps tools. Google Custom Search Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Outlook plugin to search. Ad Promotion. Linkedin Ads.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

It is the only way to ensure your leadership is not trapped in the let’s solve for 2% of our business success thinking. There are Search people and Content people and Landing Page Optimizers and Cart fixers and Attribution Specialists and more. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 20, 2014

Organic SEO is an art and for popular searches a vendor site will rarely display, and SEM is expensive for popular keywords. I wouldn’t suggest you build your business model around that. How else will you get traffic to your site to feed the funnel. a youtube video that takes off?

Jordan 50

Jordan SEM Distribution Aggregator 50

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. These are mostly search engines, portals and ecommerce platforms (google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com, amazon.com, ebay.com, msn.com, aol.com etc). These are mostly search engines, portals and news sites (soso.com, baidu.com, 163.com, But how many sites do you use on a regular basis?

Russia 68

Russia Hosting Differentiation Social Network 68

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2016

As you refine your business model, you can quickly update your pitch without wasting a lot of time. The key is to understand and explain the problem that you are solving for your customers—and make no mistake, every successful business is solving a problem for their customers. It aggregates various U.S. For the U.S.

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Forecast Angel Investor Entrepreneur 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. In fact, I don’t think revenue is in and of itself a goal for startups, and neither is profit.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. For a direct, enterprise sales business model, these thresholds are likely to be around $80,000-100,000 CMRR (approx. $1-1.2M Michael Kassing.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. That is the essence of proving the business in micro-scale.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% dasein Yeah, I agree.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62