Category Archives: Startups

Online advertising ROI-Yelp and Angie’s List

Posted on December 22, 2012 by berkeleythoughttrain

The following graphic shows the trend of user reviews posted on Yelp.com to the number of unique visitors the site received each year from 2007 to 2011. Yelp demonstrated increasingly efficient network effects starting in 2010 and 2011, also the … Continue reading →

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Exec Summary – improving the reliability of free financial data

Posted on December 12, 2012 by berkeleythoughttrain

First off, a quick mention of the professors who were brave enough to risk “teaching” us entrepreneurship! Taking the entrepreneurship class with Prof. Naeem Zafar and Prof. Safwan Shah was really cool, and easily the most memorable experience at HBS. Prof. Naeem … Continue reading →

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After the VC pitch

Posted on December 10, 2012 by berkeleythoughttrain

Recuperating with soda..this is how it feels when you win millions in seed money. ahem.

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BillGuard- analysis of their business model

Posted on October 28, 2012 by berkeleythoughttrain

In this post I will detail the business model innovation analysis I did for a startup founded by Yaron Samid- BillGuard. This assessment of BillGuard’s current strategy was conducted using the tools and concepts from MBA295M, Business Model Innovation and Entrepreneurial … Continue reading →

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Simple Bank- business model analysis

Posted on September 8, 2012 by berkeleythoughttrain

In this post I will show a quick fire way to analyze the business model of virtually any small company. Since I focused on startups in Prof. David Charon’s Business Model Innovation & Strategy course, here is an analysis I … Continue reading →

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