ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. I advised Rahul to study Epocrates as a model. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Report Bee.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. event I did last fall.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Visibility.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

In April 2008, I was introduced to Ugmode, Inc. Their business model was to provide retailers with a new interface for shopping for soft goods — something that hasn’t changed a whole lot since Web 1.0. Note: All information contained in this post is based on my best understanding and perception of what transpired.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 8, 2019

We had a chance to interview Luvleen and asked about her story, how she started her financial business and the future of BankMobile. Why did you start your business? Shortly after I graduated from Harvard in 2008, I started my career at Lehman Brothers. How did you come up with your business name? Tell us your story.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Migrating…lots of broken stuff Outsourcing For Startups → Switching Costs Posted on September 12, 2010 by admin I wonder if having a high switching cost is the evil twin of the freemium customer acquisition model.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

This was an obstacle I encountered while at Roozt.com, the Etsy-style platform for social entrepreneurs we launched in 2008. Had we continued hiring new customer service representatives instead of dealing with the root cause, our personnel costs would have sunk the company.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. For three decades (1978-2008), investors controlled the board. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired. Board Control.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. 1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. I went to college during the bust.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. 1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. I went to college during the bust.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The most successful of these businesses will still need venture capital to scale their businesses. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). See Page 269. :).

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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.) Most importantly, they have lots of data about the unit economics of their business.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. Michael Kassing.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Posted on December 15, 2008 by fnazeeri A while ago I wrote about a great HBR article titled, “ Strategies for a Two-Sided Market &# by Tom Eisenmann et al. Apparently 60% of the largest companies in the world have business models with two-sided markets. Bookmark the permalink.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

They tend to be more helpful with capturing the upside versus managing the downside, since they are better positioned to help a startup connect to new opportunities, rather than cutting costs (management) or injecting millions of dollars of need funding (investors). This is why advertising is a really good business model.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The LinkedIn acquisition of CardMunch a few weeks ago caught my attention. Techcrunch called it one of the " most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions I’ve ever seen " I met with the founders of CardMunch several months ago when they were out raising their Series Seed round. ► 2008. (14). ► May. (1).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

Technical Cofounder 150

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

For consumers scarred by the 2008 financial crisis, those brands may be perceived as “safer” than fintech alternatives, but that doesn’t nearly explain the sharp increase in share of new accounts. But that consumer preference comes at a cost. Source: Cornerstone Advisors.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

Second, the costs of a loyalty strategy are easy to account for – it’s easy to add up costs for support, technology, campaign costs, etc. First Ask Yourself, “What’s the Cost of Switching?”. It’s products like these that really need to invest in optimizing for customer loyalty, not just acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Until the recent recession, market research indicated that as many as 90 percent of the roughly 20 million American small business owners were motivated more by lifestyle than growth and money. Since 2008, the desire for profits has trumped passion in 54 percent of new startups, according to a more recent study.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

Second, the costs of a loyalty strategy are easy to account for – it’s easy to add up costs for support, technology, campaign costs, etc. First Ask Yourself, “What’s the Cost of Switching?”. It’s products like these that really need to invest in optimizing for customer loyalty, not just acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Until the recent recession, market research indicated that as many as 90 percent of the roughly 20 million American small business owners were motivated more by lifestyle than growth and money. Since 2008, the desire for profits has trumped passion in 54 percent of new startups, according to a recent study.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. At 1/12th the cost, 1M/1M provides far more value. Consequently, they are able to make decisions about their businesses in more astute and sophisticated ways. Without further ado, here we go: RS: What is 1M/1M and how did the idea come about?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Real time web usage outpaces business models. Similarly, the check-in services are attracting experimental budgets from national retailers as well as forward thinking small businesses who are eager to attract new customers into their stores, and reward regular customers. On what basis then will winners pull away from the rest?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Free roaming technology – unique roaming solution which eliminates roaming costs in more than 150 countries. Allot Communications. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. BoomeRing Communication. Media Market.

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