Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. Apple is a channel, not a business model – I see too many companies that are building iPhone App companies. iPhone is not a business model unless you’re Apple. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Founded in 2000, Tech Town boasts an incredible list of resources for tech-minded entrepreneurs, including work space, access to capital, educational workshops, and guidance with business development programs, coaching, and mentoring.

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Incubator New York City Boston Intellectual Property 202

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Our business model nudges us slightly toward the sound, safe (stodgy?) We work with clients to get them off the ground with a platform to build their business. As the technical partner, we want to be real partners in the business-making sure the technology helps achieve the business objectives.

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Guinea Application Development Ruby Web Development 200

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate back before 2000. As best, you should reserve this option for later stage VC discussions, once you have a well-proven business model, large market following, and substantial revenue.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. Luckily Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas presents a visual overview of the nine components of a business on one page. activities necessary to implement the business model. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Those with strong business models suddenly stand out when the tide goes out. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Founded in 2000, by 2010, the company’s fleet already had 8,000 cars. It should fit within your company’s budget and align with your business model. Among real examples, companies that have improved their efficiency through corporate car sharing software, one can highlight the case of the American company Zipcar.

Software Review 158

Software Review Software Mobile Technical Review 158

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Max Delivery does the same, with one big difference: Kozmo was free and was killed by its high-cost, low-revenue business model. (In In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Max Delivery charges a fee and makes a profit.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Video New York City 152

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones. What’s Missing?

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones. What’s Missing?

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. Instead of capitalizing on causes, make caring a part of your business model. by Kelly Morr, Senior Manager of Content Strategy at 99designs. It’s true that Millennials care about a lot of issues.

Marketing 150

Marketing eCommerce Technical Review Social Media 150

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

But next the question is, ‘What happens to my business?”. The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? What does your new business model look like? What does my business model look like now? Is this a three-month, one-year or a three-year problem?

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Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Add in sponsorships with payment brands (kind of like the co-branded credit card business model) to eliminate remaining costs and fund additional word of mouth advertising. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. While all this was true, something else was going on.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Max Delivery does the same, with one big difference: Kozmo was free and was killed by its high-cost, low-revenue business model. (In In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Max Delivery charges a fee and makes a profit.

Technical Cofounder 96

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Video New York City 96

BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

Search 78

Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 78

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Here’s why. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 306

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But Iridium’s business model assumptions were fixed like it was still 1990. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer. In 2000, new investors bought Iridium’s satellites and network for $25-million, or one half of one percent of the invested capital. Business plans are the leading cause of startup death.

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

There are various grades of friction between these two extreme points like open source business models, software as a service, and reseller/OEM-type models as other forms of packaging and delivering a product/service. Follow that with a 3 month implementation process to get the customer happy.

Sales 78

Sales Java Open Source Software Review 78

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Americas new business model: Sharing. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. What distinguishes the latest generation of start-ups is a confluence of new technologies and more-efficient business models that leave much of the logistical heavy-lifting to peers who share.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . If you’d like to explore more of these concepts in-depth, I recommend 3 resources: .

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

Search 60

Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

For years, HBR and most of the country’s leading business schools taught entrepreneurship as if the strategies, processes and techniques were some sort of amputated versions of the business models embraced by “real companies.” Big businesses, Blank said, became so “focused on execution, they forgot how to innovate.”.

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Lean Startup Technical Review Business Model 60

Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations. In particular, customers of widely varying technical capabilities, ages, and business models have been keen to deploy SnapLogic. The early results for SnapLogic have been remarkable in their diversity.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Memphis Software Review Software 63

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

It was not until October 2000 that Google offered its version of a pay per click advertising system -AdWords -allowing advertisers to create text ads for placement on the Google search engine. Believing in First Mover Advantage implies you understand your business model, customers problems and the features needed to solve those problems.

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Silicon Valley Differentiation United States Customer Development 324

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% Including future cancellations, they’ll need to sign up a total of 2000 customers to net 1666.

Business Model 120

Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

There are various grades of friction between these two extreme points like open source business models, software as a service, and reseller/OEM-type models as other forms of packaging and delivering a product/service. Follow that with a 3 month implementation process to get the customer happy.

Sales 60

Sales Java Open Source Software Review 60

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The ironic thing about these MLMs is that the philosophy they sell is all true (in relation to business success), but the business model they attach to it is a total fraud. I actually believe that this is a bit like the Dot Com crash in 1999-2000 and is almost a pre-condition for crypto and blockchain to be everything it can be.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. Gregg talks in the video about how they went in search of a business model and how they found one.

Viral 303

Viral Investment Bankers Video Business Model 303

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. Using the business model canvas, the changes to their business were obvious.

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Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 264

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Max Delivery does the same, with one big difference: Kozmo was free and was killed by its high-cost, low-revenue business model. (In In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Max Delivery charges a fee and makes a profit.

Technical Cofounder 60

Technical Cofounder Video Cofounder New York City 60

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 22, 2011

1000-2000 (~$20-$40) per month to access advanced workflow logistics and intelligence in the area of software testing and productivity improvement. Anand Agarwal from Pune, India, pitched BootStrapToday , an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS solution from his company Sensible Softwares. Sponsor.

Business Model 116

Business Model India Entrepreneur Software 116

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

People and operational excellence have to converge in every business, large or small. Microsoft found this out last year when their market capitalization, once at $560 billion in the year 2000, had fallen to $219 billion, allowing them to be passed by Apple at $222 billion, who grew from $15.6 billion during the same period.

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Architecture Startup Operations Metrics 250

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business.

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Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48