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.

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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

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

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The challenge is building, maintaining, and distributing integrations for every pair-wise set of every version of every application in the world. Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations. The Metaphor King and his breakthrough approach.

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Technical Review Memphis Software Review Software 63

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. How did the Introduction of YouTube affect your business? JibJab has an ad model that relied on exclusive distribution deals with the big portals. All viral adoption starts with one thing – great content.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

We are a better humanity thanks to the work of journalists, I hope the industry finds a sustainable business model. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. Over the past year or so, work-for-equity arrangements have become an integral part of Arizona Bays business model.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g., Although it is an excellent fit for complex enterprise-class solution selling, many people think classic enterprise sales, as a standalone go to market model, is broken.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Why liberal arts undergraduate degrees can be more valuable than economics / business undergraduate degrees. . Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. TechCrunch article.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

It eliminates my cost of distribution. This is a great business model. ” And that turned into, at its culmination, the $2000 course kind of paradigm. But if you slice the math, if you kind of do the real cost analysis, it’s really hard to provide a meaningful level of support at $2000. All really good.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

PayPal failed in 2000 at its stated mission to invent a new form of currency (though it pivoted to something else), but Bitcoin seems to be succeeding in 2016. WebVan failed at grocery delivery in 2000, but InstaCart might succeed in 2016. Where → Why here? Why should you build this startup in your current location?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. Yet the team got the new service up and running and used this to power and grow their business for another 7 years, until they disrupted themselves again by moving aggressively to the streaming model.

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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. Microsoft and Apple believed that microprocessors would allow consumers to have their own computers.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve tested pricing models and conversion rates. I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). In the last 15 years, the cost of production has gone down, distribution has gone mainstream.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. Then the risk of that product succeeding is lessened by network effects made feasible by app stores and digital distribution, driving up customer adoption. Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities.

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IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Companies all over the world are stepping up to the plate and pivoting from their normal business model towards one that emphasizes assistance and relief for COVID-19. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. VisionSpring is no different.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Companies all over the world are stepping up to the plate and pivoting from their normal business model towards one that emphasizes assistance and relief for COVID-19. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. VisionSpring is no different.

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Jordan Bangladesh India Mexico 62

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 31, 2011

His discussion to change his business model has been based on trends and statistics, and perhaps a need to change to keep his business thriving. Look at any business throughout history and we will see the ones that kept their air of superiority without adapting to change, always seem to meet a similar fate.

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New York Naming Internet Marketing 76

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Free product.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Now I just need a business model.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Series ORG-2000 is OriginGPS smallest fully featured GPS receiver.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m not afraid to pick up the phone, cold call someone, use LinkedIn to find someone who’s recently left a company that might be considered competitive and ask them for advise around the business model and marketplace. Now our biz model is lighter, more flexible. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned.

Technical Review 44

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. You have to focus on for the nuts and bolts, what is the business model, how are we going to make money. Bates: Fantastic.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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