The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 14, 2011

The disruption that has occurred is due to the Internet and other technological breakthroughs, fundamental changes in customer behavior and a chronic recession. Being a successful entrepreneur in the emerging new music industry will require a willingness to forget the old business models. So what has changed?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

It will enable individuals to understand the travellers’ needs and expectations intimately which can result in new hospitality business models. They understand the need to constantly improve in order to develop resilient hospitality business models hand-in-hand with their employers.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Additionally, the major factors contributing to its high growth are better Internet access, e-commerce platforms, the scope of international trade, smartphone usage, and a rise in disposable income. Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app. Reward regular customers with a lucrative loyalty program.

Technical Review 163

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

The Internet and smartphones have changed everything. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Their perception is your reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

The Internet and smartphones have changed everything. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Their perception is your reality.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

I think a great business to start in the new year (that ride on the coattails of Brook Linen and & Parachute) would be items around hosting dinner parties – napkins, tablecloths, cutlery, dishware, candlesticks, etc. 3- E-commerce Photo Credit: Carter Seuthe With the launch of 5G internet, I think eCommerce will boom in 2023.

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 112

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Word of mouth is not adequate for marketing and sales.

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Gust

JANUARY 5, 2014

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Many of the Internet business plans I see these days say the service is free, and revenue will come later from a huge user base. Invested Interests business model entrepreneur startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

The Internet and smartphones have changed everything. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Their perception is your reality.

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Technical Review Business Model Revenue Social Media 234

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Many of the Internet business plans I see these days say the service is free, and revenue will come later from a huge user base. You need deep pockets to make this one work.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

On the topic of ecommerce, one wonders to what extent this business model is applicable, and where is it likely to end? It’s the extent of this phenomenon that has resulted in soaring businesses across the world. Businesses can also mix up channels of marketing for their brands. The Rise of Ecommerce. Marketing Channels.

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eCommerce Technical Review Social Media Analytics 152

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

The Internet and smartphones have changed everything. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Their perception is your reality.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Carpe Diem.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

Now that all customer shopping and e-commerce via the Internet is worldwide, the old adage of business location, location, location, no longer should constrain your plans. Even if your business is local, like ride sharing, think about the potential for emerging markets in new countries. The possibilities are endless.

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Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence Global Agile 367

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Analogous to Amazon’s $970 million purchase of internet video site Twitch.tv The software generated by thousands of developers, both at Mojang and independent developers aligned with Mojang, will be supported by Microsoft’s ample resources and global distribution network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

If you can’t make money, it isn’t a business. Business constraints, such as market size, customer demographics, manufacturing, distribution, and support costs need to be set, or there is no context for getting it right. “We can’t worry about making money until we get it built.” Hence the pressure to deliver.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 18, 2015

They have everything: money, brand, momentum, existing customers, press, product teams, distribution channels, expertise, market insight, analysts, sales offices, product features, and, by definition, a working business model. A big, profitable company seems like the hardest thing for a small company to compete against.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

If you can’t make money, it isn’t a business. Business constraints, such as market size, customer demographics, manufacturing, distribution, and support costs need to be set, or there is no context for getting it right. “We can’t worry about making money until we get it built.” Hence the pressure to deliver.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. You’re not going to be able to blanket the entire Internet with your message – nor should you want to. Back in 2009, Cloudera placed news of its Distribution for Hadoop launch in tech blogs and reputable news sources , and reached 1.5

Social Media 158

Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2012

In these days of rapid change, almost every startup has to adapt their solution, business model, or target customer. You need to find vendors who can deliver in less cost and time than competitors, and build distribution and support channels. Leverage the technology to change directions as needed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

We see evidence in the news every day of these irresistible forces of change, like the pervasive global penetration of the Internet, the impact of terrorist activities even to peaceful countries, the power of social media in building business relationships, and the depletion and pollution of natural resources.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. In some Venture Capital firms they may share the same roof and overhead, but no one is confused, they’re in very different businesses.). Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. Some folks in the audience jeered because I was young, inexperienced, and hadn’t been an investor when the internet bubble burst.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. It will be akin to the way we trade information with each other on the internet now – except it will be energy – and we will generate excess energy on our buildings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2010

In these days of rapid change, almost every startup has to adapt their solution, business model, or target customer. You need to find vendors who can deliver in less cost and time than competitors, and build distribution and support channels. Leverage the technology to change directions as needed.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. Some folks in the audience jeered because I was young, inexperienced, and hadn’t been an investor when the internet bubble burst.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

The Startup Magazine

JULY 23, 2019

But incentives can play funny tricks on business models and digital products, especially ones that begin to permeate the very fabric of our lives. What’s more, entirely new business models can be generated around the safe, secure usage of data in physical and digital systems. Incentives are funny things.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. Some folks in the audience jeered because I was young, inexperienced, and hadn’t been an investor when the internet bubble burst.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

She found her audience and her business model and focused on scaling her concept and she made it work. In 2001, I entered the publishing industry, figuring I could use the general services turnaround skills I had developed after B school in an industry in turmoil as a result of the internet and the changes.

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Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Bootstrapping B2B 73

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

So we simply went too fast and didn’t anticipate how devoted some people still were to that part of our business. Most businesses, like Kodak or Blockbuster, go out of business when confronted with a radical new business model. How can we optimize for global distribution. It is really hard moving forward.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Lots of people talk about business models these days, but what does it really mean? When it comes to starting or planning for business success your model is essentially your decision about how you intend to add value – which is another way of saying – how you intend to make money. Clarity.fm

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build. Market segments drive your business model. Not an online clothing catalog, mind you, but a clothing company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2020

Users will have a say on what sort of advertisement they want to see when they surf the internet. Thanks to the distributed nature, you will check the signatures across ledgers on all nodes in the network and confirm no one changed anything. The distributed nature, you can see check file signatures across and ledgers on all nodes.

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