Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

As opposed to a startup incubator, which typically deals with startups barely hatched, an accelerator focuses on a later stage startup, with an existing product and proven business model, looking for rapid growth. This usually involves more attention to organizational, operational, and strategic challenges. Osmosis marketing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model. I started my business with my fiancé because of our combined skills and experiences. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.

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