K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

What started out as a generic web-based chat solution morphed into a full-fledged product for a distance education that we called iClass. (We We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. Our products were iClass, then iMeet, iServe and iShow.). The product worked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The Lean Entrepreneur offers new thinking, tools and activities that help organizations identify and act upon business model challenges in a waste-eliminating manner. These business model assumptions are then ripe for testing, measuring and iterating upon.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

To help shine some light on this topic, I’ve decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. Akamai Going Forward.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But Iridium’s business model assumptions were fixed like it was still 1990. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer. Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2015

Here’s how to change your business model in order to mitigate or leverage seasonal demand: Level out revenues. Other ways to engage employees in the offseason is with product development meetings in which everyone gets provide their ideas for new products to be developed for the following season.

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