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The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

Steve Blank

It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses and agile engineering to build minimum viable products. Introduces the Value Proposition Canvas. Teaches you how to use Customer Development to test it. Product/Market fit.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Since inception this lodging marketplace (note 1) has enabled 825 million guest stays in over 200 countries with a cumulative booking value of more than $110 billion. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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The 4 Commitments To Grow Your Reach Online

Duct Tape Marketing

Chat Spott automates all the manual tasks inside HubSpot to help you arrange more customers close more deals, and scale your business faster. Now, if you're interested in, you know, some people come to me and they wanna write a book just because it's a bucket list item or Yeah, yeah. That's hubspot.com/artificial-intelligence. (01:14):