VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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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. This new shift impacted as much as a 4% improvement in total sales of brands that had made the shift.

eCommerce 152

eCommerce Technical Review Social Media Analytics 152

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. 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.

Small Business 147

Small Business Revenue Technical Review Business Model 147

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. 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.

Technical Review 234

Technical Review Business Model Revenue Social Media 234

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.

Business Model 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. 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.

Customer 242

Customer Technical Review Business Model Revenue 242

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Of course, one sale isn’t really enough, so you need to get the first customer to recommend you to a second, and make sure rate of sales ramps up quickly enough to keep the business alive and growing.

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Sales Customer Business Model Distribution 240

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.

Technical Review 120

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2010

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Of course, one sale isn’t really enough, so you need to get the first customer to recommend you to a second, and make sure rate of sales ramps up quickly enough to keep the business alive and growing.

Sales 229

Sales Startup Distribution Revenue 229

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.

Entrepreneur 80

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Bootstrapping B2B 80

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. Do they possess the skills, experience, and know – how for their businesses to be successful?

Africa 75

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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. Or perhaps you need to chum (freemium) the waters a bit?

Entrepreneur 167

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

And an amazing thing happened; sales just kept doubling year over year. 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.

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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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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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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

What Hasn’t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. The danger of waiting to long to find a business model? How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. A VC: What Has Changed – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Consumer approach to software for business users.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2020

Regardless, Initial Coin Offering or ICO has become the most popular way to raise funds for your business. ICO is an initial coin offering which is also called a token sale. Users will have a say on what sort of advertisement they want to see when they surf the internet. Prevents Spammy Ads. Improves Online Security.

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Technology Security Distribution Open Source 137

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.) Having business models that aren’t only ad-based.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Aidan: This may be because of the intangible quality of apps and software: when something isn’t physically manufactured and distributed, it can be difficult to see why it should cost money. This model also allows for a better version of the free offering in terms of ad-free experiences, better design and service support.

Technology 158

Technology Open Source California Social Media 158

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review XML 54

Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It stands for Distributed Autonomous Organisation. However, it will create a big shift in the short to medium term of how many crowd-powered or user centric internet services currently operate. discussed by big tech — it doesn’t suit their business model. Welcome to the dawn of the DAO. Gigs and Big Tech.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

A single innovator can envision or even build an innovative prototype, but it takes a team to build the solution into a business. Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution.

Technical Review 201

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Whether you offer a product or service, or cater to other companies or consumers, systems need to be established and fine-tuned to promote customer satisfaction, reduce overheads, increase profits, and create a more sustainable business model. Data Storage and Access.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

The steps focus you on developing your business model. But they only require “the back of an envelope” to figure out how you are going to make money, how much it is going to cost to run your business, and how soon you will generate a profit and reach breakeven. How will you brand the business (name, logo, tagline)?

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads. Second, Apple vertically integrated the user experience, business model and distribution model.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Writing A Business Plan. SALES & MARKETING. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Get powerful communication & collaboration tools to help grow your business.

Arizona 40

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. They are closing orders.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Making the Pay-What-You-Want Business Model Work. Pay-what-you-want has become an interesting alternative business model online, with bands like Radiohead demonstrating that it can be an even more successful than traditional pricing. to $6.67.). So Rosen added BitTorrent to the download options. Discuss.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Warby Parker is an online store for prescription sunglasses and eyeglasses that since their founding in 2010 has taken the Lenscrafter “eye doctor in a mall” concept and fully “Internet-ized” it. Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e billion in its last round of funding.

Disintermediation 59

Disintermediation Business Model B2B Revenue 59

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Here’s a complete, 9 step guide on how to start a brewery business. Choose a business model. Fill in the business blanks. Choose a business model. Before you can start to seriously plan your own craft beer business, you need to understand the end goal that you’re aiming for.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Season 4 of week 10 of Shark Tank was interesting because two of the pitches were for internet businesses that I could imagine seeing in my day job as a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalis t. They talked about a referral program, as well as direct sales. The next two entrepreneurs run a wine tasting cruise business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Image via Flickr by Side Wages Some entrepreneurs forget that they need an innovative business model along with an innovative solution to have a successful startup. Inventors alone, or business gurus alone, generally fail. Technologists forget that investors are buying a chunk of the business, not the product.

Technical Review 120

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