Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. Instead of email, they’ve grown up with QQ instant messages. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. business models. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. It usually doesn’t end well.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. Instead of email, they’ve grown up with QQ instant messages. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. business models. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. It usually doesn’t end well.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model. Unfortunately, regardless of a VC’s age, their business models are suffering and IPOs seem to be a thing of the past for at least a while longer. Now In Print!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . Jim lectures at University of California Santa Barbara and elsewhere on the process of discovering successful business models.

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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.&# First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. Perhaps thats a fallacy?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know have they distribute their product?

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