A startup is a temporary organization designed to search…

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

— Steve Blank

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

— Steve Blank

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

— Steve Blank

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

— Steve Blank

If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it…

— John Wilbanks

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

— Brother Ali

Pick something you are interested in, and keep applying a business model that includes Internet Marketing to make it global, get thousands of leads…

— Tracy Repchuk

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

— Bruce Schneier

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

— Colin Angle

The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete.…

— Peter Thiel

The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for…

— Angela McGlowan

“structure of the social division of labor. Many firms and industries must make fundamental changes to long-held business models in order to adapt. Further,…

— Eric von Hippel

The problem with Wal-Mart is that it's a business model premised on offering the customer low prices at any cost - any cost to…

— Liza Featherstone

As business models evolve, as the way you distribute content evolves, as the ability to do things online changes in terms of pricing or…

— Bobby Kotick

In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to…

— Akira Mori