The Value Mix: Create Meaningful Products and Services for Your Audience is a book by Guerric de Ternay. I invited Guerric to join us for an interview. The topic is business design and value proposition design! Those topics are the foundation of any business and business model. Let’s jump to it! Disclosure: there are not affiliate […]
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The year 2018 hasn’t been an easy one for Facebook Inc. Going through several scandals, Mark Zuckerberg was called to Congress, and over and over again we heard the story of a growing number of users leaving the platform. For that matter in this report, we dissect the critical numbers of Facebook for the whole
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Many business organizations in the United States are worker cooperatives. Owners of these organizations sold them to their employees. The original owners of these businesses belong to the baby boomer generation. They own about 12 million of these businesses. 70% of their establishments will change hands because owners are becoming aged. Besides, their children are
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When we think of Google, that’s easy to think of it as the most significant tech success of the last decades. Yet, Google isn’t only that. Google is the most significant tech, distribution and commercial success of the previous decades. Indeed, the company managed to conquer the web and build an over a hundred billion a year
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According to the European Startup Monitor (2016), the most used business models in the European ecosystem are IT/software development, followed by SaaS and Industrial technology/production/hardware. The greatest challenge is related to sales and customer acquisition. Introduction Finding a common pattern within the European Startup ecosystem isn’t simple. Historically European countries have had diverse profiles, cultures, and
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Harvard Business School follows a non-for profit business model with a self-sustaining cycle, where thanks mostly to the resources the School and all the businesses around it generate enough revenues to cover up all the expenses and finance its future activities. For instance, in 2017, HBS generate $69 million in cash from operations, from its
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In 2018, 85% of Google’s revenues came from advertising. Those revenues represented over $116 billion. Thus, understanding Google’s powerful advertising money-making machine is critical to understand Google (now Alphabet) current business engine. For that matter you need to understand two key elements: How Google monetizes its pages The costs Google incur to acquire traffic In
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The whole web economy has been based for over two decades on the ability of people to click from one page to the next. The hyperlink, or what we today call simply links, are the things that connect pages around the web. When Google took over the web, it managed to make any page on
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On this blog, I’ve already covered and talked about voice search and why I think is critical to Google future strategy. Let me start by a couple of moves Google has made which show – I argue – how much the company is betting on voice search. For instance, in 2018, Google invested in San Diego-based
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Pat Flynn, creator of Smart Passive Income makes money by affiliate marketing, book sales, and course sales. He has also built niche sites that generate passive revenue streams. Additional income comes from podcast sponsorships, software, and apps. The smart passive income model purpose is to automate revenue generation. What is Smart Passive Income? Pat Flynn
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Before we dive into the Google business model canvas, it is important to notice that a business model is an ever-evolving creature. Thus, the pieces of the puzzle that will give rise to a unique business model today might be completely different in the future. This is even more evident for tech giants, like Google, which disrupted
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Facebook is worth on average over $1000 on a yearly basis for its users according to a study conducted by Jay R. Corrigan, Saleem Alhabash, Matthew Rousu, Sean B. Cash, entitled “How much is social media worth? Estimating the value of Facebook by paying users to stop using it.” Facebook, like Uber? A social network is not far
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ChaCha was a human-guided search engine. It provided free, real-time answers to any question, through its website, via text messaging, or by using one of the company’s mobile apps. ChaCha was founded in 2006 by Scott A. Jones and Brad Bostic. Its name comes from the Mandarin Chinese word cha, which means “to search.” Today
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Back in 1985, Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple. The company would still benefit from a few years of continuing growth until it hit a roadblock and sales started to fall. By 1996 Apple brought in a new CEO which was supposed to turn it over. But by 1997 things didn’t get better until Apple
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Back in December 2017, I had mixed feelings about what to do next in my life. On the one hand, I had been immersed for over a year in an entirely new adventure, taking care of the business development of a SaaS startup. I had never had any experience in sales and distribution in my
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HyreCar is a peer-to-peer marketplace where owners of cars can rent their idle vehicles to drivers that want to make an additional income via ride-sharing services like Uber, and Lyft. As a two-sided marketplace, HyreCar makes money by charging drivers for direct insurance and a 10% fee on the weekly rental expense. And by taking
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If you ask around in Silicon Valley among the people who most contributed to the development of the tech industry many will agree on one name: Reid Hoffman. He’s been part of the PayPal Mafia who managed to build a multi-billion dollar company eventually bought by eBay. Once cashed his check from the PayPal acquisition, Reid
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The Blitzscaling business model canvas is a model based on the concept of Blitzscaling, which is a particular process of massive growth under uncertainty, and that prioritizes speed over efficiency and focuses on market domination to create a first-scaler advantage in a scenario of uncertainty. Quick glance There isn’t a single way to define a
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September 21, 2017, Rick Osterloh, Senior Vice President of Hardware at Google announced a historic agreement between Google and HTC with these words: With this agreement, a team of HTC talent will join Google as part of the hardware organization. These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks we’ve already been working with closely on the Pixel
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Google business model is changing over the years. Even though advertising is still its cash cow, Google has been diversifying its revenues in other areas. While in 2015 90% of Google revenues came from advertising, in 2017, advertising revenues represented 86%. Other revenues grew from about 10% in 2015 to almost 13% in 2017. It
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