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Source: The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

“Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.”

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Author:Steve Blank

“A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.”

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Author:Steve Blank

“Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.”

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Author:Steve Blank

“I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not on the long term a sustainable business model that we're happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset.”

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Author:David Stern

“A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.”

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Author:Michael Arrington

“Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.”

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Book:Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet

Source: Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet

“The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500.”

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Author:Luis von Ahn

“Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.”

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Author:Clayton Christensen

“But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.”

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Author:Aaron Sorkin

“Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.”

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Author:Dan Farmer

“For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.”

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Author:Ginni Rometty

“We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.”

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Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."”

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.”

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Book:Disrupt Yourself

Source: Disrupt Yourself

“Good design can't fix broken business models.”

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Author:Jeffrey Veen

“If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.”

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Author:Jeff Bezos

“Stop looking at the Web as merely a display opportunity and not a way to interact. That does not create a new business model, it just shifts one that isn't growing and is outdated. The reason sites like Google are stealing advertisers from daily newspapers is not because Google has more eyeballs. It's because Google used the interactivity of the Web to deliver a new, better way to advertise.”

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Author:Sarah Lacy

“The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.”

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Author:John McKinley

“Network marketing is the fastest growing business model in the world today.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.”

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Author:Steve Blank

“There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.”

“Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.”

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Author:Jerry I. Porras

“If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years”

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Author:Angela Ahrendts

“I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.”

“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.”

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Author:Tim O'Reilly

“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.”

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Author:Tim O'Reilly

“It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.”

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Author:Patrick Collison

“Companies that actually survive and flourish are going to change their business model from production to aggregating the networks and the network services and solutions. If you're a construction company or an IT company or a logistics company or an information data operation, to the extent that you can find ways to help build the commons, you can get some commercial value in that.”

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Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.”

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Author:Thorsten Heins

“There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.”

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Author:Cory Doctorow

“Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.”

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Author:John Day

“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.”

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Author:Irving Azoff

“Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.”

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Author:Marc Andreessen

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