Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. The parallel between Gates and Ballmer and Jobs and Cook is eerie.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. The parallel between Gates and Ballmer and Jobs and Cook is eerie.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. A founder should know (more or less) what milestones she can achieve with the current round (in terms of product, revenue, etc). There aren’t many structural advantages for a startup compared to a large company, and speed is a rare exception. Need for Speed, indeed.

Founder 187

Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3- With a simple 30 second video posted on social media, business owners have the opportunity to build major traffic and revenue from their sites. Skills like agility, flexibility, continuous learning ability, and stress tolerance would be some of the defining skills of a future entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Media Bootstrapping 127

ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

Money talks, and if you can show that, by improving the customer experience, it might lead to a 1% increase in conversion, and that could lead to $XXXX more revenue per year, that can help put things into context. Others can actually make things worse for your customers and harm revenue. agile methodologies, aligning tools stacks).

Customer 74

Customer Conversion Dividend Software Review 74

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And I think how you think about that, whether you're a restaurant owner that didn't invest in curbside pickup, what can you do to, I'll call it, hack it or in an agile mindset, how do you think about bringing a way to be able to do curbside and do that well, and not just rely on the delivery folks to be able to support you? Let's go."

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148