Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Is “Data” a Business Model? March 30, 2012. Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. So is “data” now a new business model, as some suggest? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. In 2012, we applied for and then were awarded a grant from NSF to do just that. It’s made a big bang. When Steve and NSF created the I-Corps™.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Business by Design is enterprise and large mid-market focused, Business One is SMB; this is an extension of how SAP has gone to market but the challenge is how do you serve millions of businesses versus 10s of thousands with this model?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Founded in New York City in 2012, Kinnek bases its business model on quality over quantity. In fact, while smaller than its competitors, Kinnek collects information about buyers and sellers, such as reviews and business data, and attaches a score to each user. Kinnek is the newcomer.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The landscape grew to 2,011 companies in 2024 from merely 139 logos in 2012 when it was first published. Counter position – Kill the value-proposition of the competition with a new, superior business model, which the incumbent does not mimic due to anticipated damage to their existing business.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Staying disciplined and focused at the business at hand, and following the model, will help a franchise owner achieve success. Determining the most effective business model is an important first step to ensure company success. Unfortunately, if your business model fails, , so does your business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Focus on solving those problems and then it’s gravy if you can spin the business model to get their end customers involved. Asif Khan founded Caremerge in 2012 and recently received multi-million dollars in funding, Asif Khan has over 20 years of experience in technology. Kickstarter.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

The company has seen 20% average monthly growth in the last year, is on track to handle $3 million in donations this August alone, and projects a total of nearly $40 million in 2012. But online payment technology didn’t catch up with their vision, until now.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

With more than 825,000 franchise establishments across 300 business lines, they employ nearly 18 million people and account for one eighth of the U.S. But before candidates can decide if franchising is the right move for them, they must weigh the benefits and costs of franchising against that of a traditional business model.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models. What’s striking to me is the polar opposite business models Apple and Amazon have established to crack the same nut. Apple has a marginally profitable digital content business which drives a highly profitable hardware business. October 3, 2011.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

business model and team. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. Here are the ingredients: Business model : This is actually the most important ingredient of the five. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on Dec.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily. Do startups have a manual?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Microsoft’s Kinect Accelerator is powered by TechStars and applications for the Kinect Accelerator are now being accepted through January 25, 2012. Recently, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Kinect Accelerator , a program created to incubate startups building the next generation of innovative experiences for the Kinect.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

As far back as 2012, McKinsey predicted that, by catering to MSMEs in emerging markets, bank reserves could achieve growth of 20 percent per year between 2010 and 2015 [8]. Low overheads make this a highly successful business model: the company only employs around 15 full-time staff [15]. 3] Varian, H., 5] FedEx GCR 2014. [6]

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

Google’s gross and operating margins improved sequentially in 4Q14, and even as they continue to be lower than when desktop search advertising was at its peak in 2011 and early 2012, TBR believes margin growth is of lesser importance to Google than consistently growing total revenue and gross profit between 10% and 15% year-to-year each quarter.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Streaming Shakes Up Music Industry’s Model for Royalties - [link]. 10 Tips for Building an Open Agency Business Model | Digiday - [link]. The State of Business To Business (B2B) Content Marketing In North America - [link]. Plastic Business Cards Inspiration – 29 Unique Examples – [link].

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2013

With US Smartphone penetration on pace to reach 80% next year (Asymco) and 2012 tablet sales of 136 million units, the era of Social TV has arrived. [[ This is a content summary only. Nielsen has made it official- Multi-tasking across screens, particularly while watching TV, is now the norm.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

His superiors weren’t all happy with this atypical approach to news and asked him to leave in September 2012. In December 2012 he met up with the founders of Momkai , a creative agency with clients such as Red Bull and Nike. While reading these articles, our readers won’t be distracted by advertisements, for we are an ad-free site.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night. The most interesting company to present was The Coop , a modern, design-focused, indoor-outdoor children’s playspace in Los Angeles.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We also explored business models that not only can span advertising, subscription, and e-commerce, but also hybrid virtual-physical concepts that could even draw upon a Starbucks of Salsa, Tango or Swing! However, it is wonderful to see steadfast execution from a software startup, and the evolution of a sustainable business in Romania.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

” Page obliged and in July 2012, he advised his teams to scale back and focus on core products like Android. Author and Stanford professor Steve Blank defines a startup as “an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” ” In other words, the model is not fully baked.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

.” In researching my answers for the WSJ reporter, I dug up some data on TechStars companies over the last several years that use the freemium model. It’s interesting that in 2009 there was a peak for our companies in use of the freemium model. The paid software business models available to you are simply a bag of tools.

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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.” The Startup Owner’s Manual was published in 2012.Blank’s

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. By 2016, we had begun to specialize into a thesis-driven firm , focusing on businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. . No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. misses an opportunity. Securities Regulation.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

August 7, 2012 by Alistair. There are three criteria you can use to help choose your OMTM: the business you’re in; the stage of your startup’s growth; and your audience. First: what business are you in? For online businesses, most of them are transactional, collaborative, SaaS-based, media, game, or app-centric.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And not keep investors informed about changes to your business model can have serious consequences. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. . When they found out, they questioned my decision-making and me as an entrepreneur.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

One of the main (and early) steps is to make a considered decision about what IP means to your business and what IP tools will be used to support your business model. Not doing so can cause big problems later for your business. It is estimated that trade secret theft cost the US economy $300 billion in 2012.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

One year ago, I wrote that “crowdsourcing is fundamentally changing business, government, non-profits, education, research and other sectors.” Look at trends for 2012]. Crowdsourcing businesses will evolve their business models to provide more sophisticated crowdsourced services.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

Our initial journey goes way back as we were investors in Guy Podjarny’s previous company, Blaze.io, which sold to Akamai in 2012. Dev first business model with budget from security? —?we

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2017

Having set up shop in 2012, Platinum Rapid Funding harnesses its technology, manpower, proprietary data and resources, and unique business model to deliver what it currently does. By the end of 2017, we foresee associating with a lot more industries and businesses. And Beyond?

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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. Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. That aside, here are ten areas I think you'll see some interesting things happening in 2012. PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. What's the business model?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. business models. This left an open playing field for Chinese software startups as they “copy to China” existing U.S. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. But there are two striking differences.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2013

The only way to ensure that your company is always moving in the right direction is to conduct regular reviews of your business model and to effect change in a confident manner whenever it should become clearly necessary. A word of caution when it comes to review, however: there are good and bad ways of doing it to motivate your staff.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

26 September 2012. To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Much of the valuations around the consumer web are rationalizing, and because of that, investors are once again focused on understanding business models. Contact Me.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

The business model is innovative and unique, and the business itself serves as a fantastic “how to” example for entrepreneurs looking to start a social, mission-driven business. See Also What Is a Social Enterprise? See Also Jed Darland Cultivates Depth of Scope: A Secret to Success Story. Always be learning.

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