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“Liking” Facebook’s Business Model – The #EconomicMoats Remix

March 10, 2016 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Note: I published “Liking” Facebook’s Business Model on December 26, 20011 at Tekedia. This article updates that discussion by incorporating developments since then. It also folds in discussion of the economic moats that Facebook has developed around its business. Large segments of this article are exactly identical to the post that was published by Tekedia […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Intellectual Explorations, Startups, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Competitive Strategy, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Investment Analysis, Long Read, Network Effect, Switching Costs, Venture Capital, Viral Growth, Viral Marketing

Revisiting What I Know About Intangibles & Startups

October 26, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

  This is the third post in my series of blog posts on economic moats. I have already written about Network Effects and Switching Costs. The remaining three sources of an economic moat are Cost Advantages, Efficient Scale, and Intangibles. ((Any errors in appropriately citing my sources are entirely mine. Let me know what you object […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Innovation, Management, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Brand, Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Innovation, Intangibles, Intellectual Property, Investment Analysis, Margin of Safety, Persuasion, Strategy, Venture Capital

Notes on Strategy; For Early Stage Technology Startups

June 23, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Alternate Title: What Can 24’s Jack Bauer Teach a Tech Startup Founder About Strategy?  Running a business without a strategy is like breathing air without oxygen. The purpose of this blog post is to attempt to synthesize certain fundamental lessons on strategy that are relevant for anyone trying to build a business. ((Let me know […]

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A Note on Developing and Testing Hypotheses

June 10, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

This post is a continuation of the discussion I started in A Note On Startup Business Model Hypotheses. In this post I will describe how one might go about developing and testing a hypothesis about any aspect of a startup’s  business model. ((Let me know if you feel I have failed to attribute something appropriately. Tell […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, How To, Innovation, Investing, Lean Startup, Startups, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Early Stage Startups, Hypothesis Testing, Long Read, Probability, Statistics, Strategy, Venture Capital

A Note on Startup Business Model Hypotheses

March 29, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

One of the observations I have arrived at over the course of meeting founders of early stage startups is that often it is not clear during our conversations if they have spent time examining the hypotheses that underlie the business model for the startup they are building. This post ((Any mistakes in quoting from my […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Lean Startup, Long Read, Startups, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Persuasion, Pitching, Venture Capital

What Is Your Business Model?

February 1, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

“It is a B2B2C business model.” is generally not what I am hoping to hear when I ask “What is your business model?” #BusinessModelGeneration — Brian Laung Aoaeh (@brianlaungaoaeh) February 2, 2015 Invariably, when I am meeting the founder of a startup for the first time to discuss the possibility that KEC Ventures might invest […]

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