If you look at our original business model with the verticalized law firm, a lot of these companies that have this kind of full stack model are not going to survive. A lot of these companies, Atrium included, did not figure out how to make a dent in operational efficiency.
The token itself is not your new business model. What the token enables for you and for your users is the key part to focus on.
A token is not a short term carrot, nor a stick for that matter. Just having a token doesn’t mean that you have a working business model attached with it.
A new DAO is like a startup. It requires a product/market fit, business model realization, and a lot of users/customers.
If Youku had adopted YouTube’s business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on the product, they make more money the more time people spend.
What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn’t its business model?
There’s this notion out there – and it’s a categorically false notion – that the only business model in the service industry is the minimum-wage business model. I say phooey to that. You go to a Costco store, and you see people there who’ve been working there for years and years. They’re making $15, $20 an hour, plus health benefits.
People say Facebook connects the world. Facebook has 5,000 Ph.D.s that think about how to make you click on ads you don’t want to see. Their business model is about something that most people would not perceive as making the world better.
Asian online games are far ahead of Western games in terms of business model, but the Western games do have a real advantage in terms of production values.
There’s not a single business model, and there’s not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.
Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible.
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
My original business model – I actually wrote this down – was ‘interesting work for interesting people.’
Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night’s episode.
Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let’s give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.
The internet business model changed dramatically. You would never have an Uber, you would never had an Instagram, if you didn’t have a connected computer in your pocket that didn’t also have a camera or a GPS.
The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses, and agile engineering to build minimum viable products.
Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup’s business model, not just the product itself.
Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams, or product lines are acquiring startups that are searching for a business model. If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies that are executing.
Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder’s vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis.
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